Peter Straus
Rogers, Coleridge & White
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Updated: 9/19/2025
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Peter Straus joined Rogers, Coleridge and White as an agent in 2002.
In 2007 he became Managing Director.
He is passionate about good writing and great literature and works with many bestselling and prize-winning writers from around the world, both literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction.
Peter was President of the Association of Authors’ Agents from 2012 to 2014.
He was awarded a CBE for his services to literature in 2016.
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- Robbie Arnott
- Kate Atkinson
- Lucy Caldwell
- Peter Carey
- Christopher de Bellaigue
- Anita Desai
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Anne Enright
- Percival Everett
- Elaine Feeney
- Lorna Gibb
- Sinéad Gleeson
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Hugo Hamilton
- Sophie Hannah
- Natalie Haynes
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Daniel Kehlmann
- Caragh Maxwell
- Ian McEwan
- Charlotte Mendelson
- Wyl Menmuir
- Pankaj Mishra
- Andrew Hunter Murray
- Jenny Mustard
- Andrew O’Hagan
- Richard Powers
- Andrew Ridker
- Livia Manera Sambuy
- Edward St. Aubyn
- Tim Sullivan
- Colm Toibin
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