Brenda Bowen

Brenda Bowen

The Book Group
Likely Open
USA
Updated: 9/25/2025
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Agent Information

Agent Bio

Brenda Bowen has seen publishing from all sides.

She is an agent who was a children’s book publisher for many years and is an award-winning author of some forty-five books for children.

Her clients have won the MacArthur Fellowship, the Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor, the Stonewall Award for Adult Fiction, the Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor, the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent, the Sibert Medal, the Geisel Honor, the William C Morris Honor, the New York Times Best Illustrated Book prize, and the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal.

Her clients have been #1 New York Times bestsellers and have been translated around the globe.

She represents Oscar Emmy and Tony Award winners, career authors and artists, and newcomers making their debuts.

She lives in New York City and spends August in a cottage in Maine.

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Submission Requirements

Fiction Requirements

Nonfiction Requirements

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Genres

Genres Represented

Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Children's Books
  • Graphic Novels
  • Historical Fiction
  • Middle Grade - Fiction
  • Women's Fiction
  • Young Adult - Fiction
Nonfiction
  • Cookbooks
  • Humor
  • Memoirs

Genres Not Represented

None listed or not available
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About The Book Group

Agency Profile

The Book Group is a full-service literary agency passionately committed to fostering the careers of writers from a diverse range of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences, and we represent books for readers of all ages.

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