Lisa Adams
The Garamond Agency
Likely Open
Updated: 8/27/2025
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Agent Information
Agent Bio
Lisa Adams worked for publishers in New York and Boston for over fifteen years before she started representing authors.
She began in the subsidiary rights department at Random House, worked for the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency and went on to work in a variety of capacities for Basic Books (where she was Associate Publisher).
Lisa also worked at Newmarket Press, and Addison Wesley Longman.
She was a founding partner of the Boston Literary Group, where she represented writers of both scholarly and trade books.
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Submission Requirements
Fiction Requirements
Nonfiction Requirements
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Genres
Genres Represented
Fiction
Not Available or None Listed
Nonfiction
- Nonfiction
- Business
- History
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Politics
- Psychology
- Science
- Social Science
Genres Not Represented
- Memoir
- Children’s Or Young Adult Books
- Adult Fiction
- Poetry
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About The Garamond Agency
Agency Profile
The Garamond Agency represents authors of idea-driven non-fiction. Covering history and science to current affairs and narrative non-fiction, our eclectic list brings big ideas and important voices to print.
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