Sam Copeland

Sam Copeland

Rogers, Coleridge & White
Likely Open
UK
Updated: 9/19/2025
Agent Bio

Sam Copeland was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at the 2020 and 2021 British Book Awards and selected for the Bookseller's Most Influential People in Publishing in 2020.

He was a bookseller for a number of years, before starting in publishing in 2001.

He joined RCW Literary Agency in 2006 and became a director in 2016.

He has an extremely diverse list of award-winning and bestselling authors, representing writers of both literary and commercial fiction and all genres.

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