Robin Straus

About the Agent

Robin Straus is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives and the Women's Media Group. She graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in art history and English literature and received her M.B.A. from New York University. Prior to becoming an agent, she served as a subsidiary rights manager at Random House and Doubleday and worked in editorial at Little, Brown. She was an agent at the Wallace & Sheil Agency before founding Robin Straus Agency, Inc. in 1983. In 2014 she acquired The Wallace Literary Agency.

Represented authors

• Brian Aldiss
• Antony Beevor
• David Blackbourn
• Joan Bolker
• Frances Brent
• Simon Callow
• Eileen Chang
• Charles Dickinson
• David Doubilet
• Claudia Dreifus
• Colin Eisler
• David Esterly
• Thomas Flanagan
• Stephen Fox
• Lucie Greene
• Vasily Grossman
• Andrew Hacker
• Titania Hardie
• Jana Harris
• Michele A. Hernandez
• Michele Hernandez
• Yivo Institute For Jewish Research
• Joan Jakobson
• Ha Jin
• Hao Jingfang
• Landon Jones
• Sheila Kohler
• Jerelle Kraus
• Judith Lennox
• Thomas Lickona
• Amber Madison
• Ellen Marmur
• Alyse Myers
• Paul Nicklen
• Karen Quinn
• Peter Quinn
• Kathleen Ragan
• Laurence Rees
• Joshua Rubenstein
• Al Silverman
• Alexander McCall Smith
• John Tirman
• Kelly Traver
• Yasutaka Tsutsui
• Frederick Turner
• James Villas
• Peter Watson