Wendy Sherman

About the Agent

Wendy Sherman has been in publishing more years than she cares to admit. She has held senior, executive positions at Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Henry Holt where she was Associate Publisher. During her time at these major publishing houses, she worked in the areas of subsidiary rights, marketing, sales, and editorial. She left to pursue her dream of becoming a literary agent and founded Wendy Sherman Associates Literary Management in 1999. Wendy loves voice and story-driven fiction that hits that sweet spot between literary and mainstream. She has a passion for Southern voices, suspense with a well-developed protagonist, and has a weakness for family secrets, mother-daughter relationships, and realistic love stories. She is also interested in non-fiction with a unique twist by authors with a strong, well-developed media platform. Areas of interest include memoir, narrative non-fiction, practical and prescriptive, self-help and popular psychology, parenting, lifestyle, pop-culture, health, wellness, and spirituality, and just about anything to do with food or dogs. Wendy is a member of the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA) and the Women's Media Group.

Represented authors

• Cathy Alter
• Michelle Angello
• Heather Askinose
• Denna Babul
• Howard Bahr
• Lundy Bancroft
• Elizabeth Bard
• Gretchen Berg
• Calire Bidwell Smith
• Greg Boose
• Rebekah Borucki
• Leslie Brody
• Tommy Brown
• Courtney Carver
• Caleb Daniloff
• Polly Dugan
• Jonathan Fields
• Therese Anne Fowler
• Emily V. Gordon
• Melanie Hoffert
• Alexandra Jamieson
• Timmi Jandro
• Sadeqa Johnson
• Emma Johnson
• Marjan Kamali
• Andrea King Collier
• Diana Kirschner
• Steve Kistulentz
• Tyler Knox
• Lucette Lagnado
• William Lashner
• Sage Lavine
• Sarah Lohman
• Karin Louise
• Shanna Mahin
• Kimberly Meyer
• Adam Minter
• Mieshelle Nagelschneider
• Jennifer Pashley
• Brigid Pasulka
• Esther Perel
• Jax Peters Lowell
• Cheryl Reid
• Rob Schmitz
• Viola Shipman
• Dave Singleton
• Erin Stutland
• Ragan Sutterfield
• Mashonda Tifrere
• Wendy Walker