Laurie Liss
Sterling Lord Literistic
Likely Open
Updated: 9/23/2025
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Executive Vice President and Managing Partner, Laurie has made it a point in her career to nurture young and unpublished authors, as well as self-published and ‘under-published’ writers.
Laurie represents fiction and nonfiction whose perspectives are well developed and unique.
Her list represents her broad-based tastes, but generally she looks for books with heart, which will positively impact society.
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- Richard Paul Evans
- Rachel Maddow
- Matt Richtel
- Gabor Mate
- Hannah Gadsby
- Shankar Vedantam
- Esau McCaulley
- Jessica Valenti
- Janet Reitman
- Spencer Ackerman
- Molly O’Toole
- Valter Longo
- Jenna Evans Welch
- Susanne Pari
- Julie K. Brown
- Elba Perez
- Alia Dastagir
- Mackenzi Lee
- Jewelle Gomez
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