BJ Robbins
Literary Agent
BJ Robbins, a literary agent, began her book publishing career in the publicity department at Simon & Schuster. She later moved to Harcourt,
where she became director of marketing and then senior editor. In 1992 she started her own Los Angeles-based literary agency, representing quality fiction and general nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, biography, history, pop culture, sports, travel/adventure, medicine, and health.
Her client list includes James D. Houston's Snow Mountain Passage and Bird of Another Heaven, CBS TV Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson's Between the Bridge and the River, Eduardo Santiago's Tomorrow They Will Kiss, John Hough, Jr.'s The Last Summer, and the upcoming Carry Me Home by Nafisa Haji, and The Writing on My Forehead. Her nonfiction list includes J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Getting Stoned with Savages, and Lost on Planet China; Los Angeles Times columnist Chris Erskine's Man of the House; Tim Madigan's I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers; and James Donovan's A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn.
A member of AAR and PEN USA West, she has led workshops at UCLA Extension, UC Irvine Extension and at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Fiction Workshop.
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