Claire Draper
Au Literary Management
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Updated: 6/13/2026
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Claire Draper began their career in 2016, working as an assistant and later literary agent at InkWell Management, the Bent Agency, and Azantian Literary Agency before founding Au Literary Management in 2025.
A graduate of NYU Gallatin, Claire studied Queer Diversity in Children’s Literature as an undergraduate and worked for a brief stint as a bookseller at the Strand Bookstore.
They prefer to work with books that are funny, lighthearted, romantic, and hopeful, with a fast pace, high stakes, and strong emotional development for the main characters.
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