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Amy Berkower
 Bio
In 1972, after graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz with honors
in English Literature, Ms. Berkower took her first job in publishing as a "gal"
Friday with Writers House, a two-person literary agency in New York. Just a few years
later, she was promoted to agent and started the children's book department which is now
one of the largest in the world, consisting of five agents who together represent over 200
clients. Ms. Berkower's children's list includes such best-selling authors as Francine
Pascal, Ann Martin, Paula Danziger, Joan Lowery Nixon, James Howe, Barbara Park, Andrew
Clements, Sharon Creech, Laurie Anderson and Dav Pilkey. In 1987, she was made a full
partner. Her list has expanded to include adult authors like Nora Roberts and Barbara
Delinsky, whose books have become perennial New York Times bestsellers.
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Writers House
Writers House was founded in 1974 by Al Zuckerman, who had been a writer of plays,
television scripts and novels, and a professor of playwriting and dramatic literature. In
1978, with the publication of EYE OF THE NEEDLE by Ken Follett, the agency was firmly on
its way. Now, twenty-seven years later, Writers House has grown into one of New York's
leading literary agencies consisting of fourteen agents and a client list of more than 500
authors embracing a full line of literary properties, including novels, children's books,
cookbooks, and all types of nonfiction. Clients include Nora Roberts, Barbara Delinsky,
Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking, Michael Lewis, Ridley Pearson, Neal Gaiman, Laurell K.
Hamilton, Octavia Butler, Robin McKinley, Cynthia Voigt, Bruce Sterling, Jane Feather,
Lora Brody, Rick Rodgers, David Berlinksi, Ed Humes, Eileen Goudge, V.C. Andrews, Linda
Howard, Mem Fox, Kathleen Krull, Kathryn Hewitt, Toby Tobias, Jack Gantos, Chris Lynch,
Rachel Vail, Jon Scieszka, Elise Primavera, Frannie Billingsly and Ben Mikaelsen.
In addition, Writers House has a Foreign Rights Department run by Maja Nikolic which
handles the foreign sales for all our clients and a Subsidiary Rights Department, run by
Michelle Rubin, which handles first-serial and audio rights as well as the subsidiary
rights for a dozen or so dynamic publishers including Ten Speed, Running Press and Four
Walls, Eight Windows. In 1987, Writers House acquired the Joan Daves Agency, managed by
Jennifer Lyons, which represents, among others, the estates of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., Heinrich Boll, Isaac Babel, Gabriela Mistrial and Herman Hesse. In 1998, Writers
House opened a California office run by Steven Malk.
Agents: Al Zuckerman, Amy Berkower, Merrilee Heifetz, Susan Cohen, Susan Ginsburg, Robin
Rue, Karen Solem, Fran Lebowitz, Michele Rubin, Maja Nikolic, Jennifer Lyons, Steven Malk,
Simon Lipskar, and Jodi Reamer.
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