Amanda Urban

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Amanda "Binky" Urban
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Amanda Urban (center) in 2011
Born1946or1947(age 76–77) [1]
Alma mater Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
OccupationLiterary Agent
Spouse Ken Auletta [1]
Awards2010 Maxwell E. Perkins Award

Amanda "Binky" Urban is an American literary agent and partner [2] at ICM Partners. [1]

Urban started at ICM as a literary agent, [3] worked as Co-Director of the ICM Literary Department in New York, and had been Managing Director of ICM Books in London from 2002 to 2008. [4] Before ICM, she was General Manager of New York Magazine [5] and The Village Voice , and Editorial Manager of Esquire Magazine . [6]

In December 2010, the Center for Fiction awarded Amanda Urban the Maxwell E. Perkins Award in recognition of her work and contribution to the field of fiction writing. [7] [8] She was the first book agent selected to receive the award. [9]

Urban attended Kent Place School [10] and graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts as an English major in 1968. [11]

She has represented dozens of authors, among them Jennifer Egan, Bret Easton Ellis, and Nora Ephron. [12] [13] [4] [14] [11]

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