Amanda "Binky" Urban | |
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 Urban in 2011 | |
| Born | 1946or1947(age 78–79) [1] |
| Alma mater | Wheaton College (Massachusetts) |
| Occupation | Literary Agent |
| Spouse | Ken Auletta [1] |
| Awards | 2010 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, Nora Ephron, and Cormac McCarthy. [12] [13] [4] [14] [11] She was representing Donna Tartt for three decades until they parted ways in 2017. [15] Amanda Urban also works with Nobel Prize recipient Kazuo Ishiguro and Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. [16] [17]
