Stephanie Abou

About the Agent

Stephanie Abou joined the agency in 2015. Hailing from France, she worked for fashion magazines while finishing her degree in comparative literature from the Sorbonne, initially planning a career in journalism. Upon arriving in NYC in the late 1990s, an internship at Farrar, Straus and Giroux convinced her to pursue her passion for literature professionally. She has developed a dual career as a foreign rights director and a domestic agent, with prior experience at The Joy Harris Literary Agency and Foundry Literary + Media. Multi-lingual and multi-cultured, she particularly enjoys works that celebrate the resilience of the human spirit while also depicting the experience of "the other." She specializes in character-driven fiction, memoirs, crime fiction, and narrative nonfiction. Stephanie enjoys a close editorial rapport with her authors, believing that strong writing must be put in the service of great storytelling to birth a successful book.