Best Literary Agents For Memoirs - April 2024

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

Now a Netflix original series Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases—and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares. During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legenda... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501191969
• ASIN: 1501191969
• ISBN: 1501191969
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia: a True Story by an FBI Agent

• ASIN: B002WVGEBO
• ASIN: B002WVGEBO
• Manufacturer: Berkley

About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

Called “everything a twentieth century war memoir could possibly be” by The New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.From age fifteen to forty David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in Vietnam. With About Face, he has written what many Vietnam veterans have called the most important book of their generation.From Korea to Berlin, from the Cuban missile crisis to Vietnam, Hackworth’s ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671695347
• ASIN: 0671695347
• ISBN: 0671695347
• Brand: Touchstone
• Manufacturer: Touchstone

Mrs. Kennedy and Me

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called “clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip,” Jackie Kennedy’s personal Secret Service agent details his very close relationship with the First Lady during the four years leading up to and following President John F. Kennedy’s tragic assassination.In those four years, Hill was by Mrs. Kennedy’s side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. He was there for the birth of John, Jr. on November 25, 1960, as well as for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on A... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451648464
• ASIN: 1451648464
• ISBN: 1451648464
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Blogs, Memoir, Recipes, and More

The go-to soup-to-nuts guide on how to really make money from food writing, both in print and onlineWith recipe-driven blogs, cookbooks, reviews, and endless foodie websites, food writing is ever in demand. In this award-winning guide, noted journalist and writing instructor Dianne Jacob offers tips and strategies for getting published and other ways to turn your passion into cash, whether it's in print or online. With insider secrets and helpful advice from award-winning writers, agents, and editors, Will Write for Food is still the essential guide to go from starving artist to well-fed write... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0738218057
• UPC: 884639366146
• ASIN: 0738218057
• ISBN: 0738218057
• Brand: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Manufacturer: Da Capo Lifelong Books

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

• ASIN: 0735217718
• ASIN: 0735217718
• ISBN: 0735217718
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Flight: A Novel

From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history. Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the alcoholic father whom he’s never met, especially disconnected from other Indians.   After he runs away from his latest foster home, he makes a new friend. Handsome, charismatic, and e... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00FEZ25IQ
• ASIN: B00FEZ25IQ
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Five Days in November

Don’t miss the New York Times bestseller Five Days in November, where Secret Service agent Clint Hill tells the stories behind the iconic images of those five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK’s assassination, published for the 50th anniversary of his death.On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476731500
• ASIN: 1476731500
• ISBN: 1476731500
• Brand: Gallery Books
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully

Now updated for 2015! The best, most comprehensive guide for writers is now revised and updated, with new sections on ebooks, self-publishing, crowd-funding through Kickstarter, blogging, increasing visibility via online marketing, micropublishing, the power of social media and author websites, and more—making The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published more vital than ever for anyone who wants to mine that great idea and turn it into a successfully published book. Written by experts with twenty-five books between them as well as many years’ experience as a literary agent (Eckstut) ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 076116085X
• ASIN: 076116085X
• ISBN: 076116085X
• Brand: Workman Publishing Company
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

The Book You Were Born to Write: Everything You Need to (Finally) Get Your Wisdom onto the Page and into the World

A guide to writing a full-length transformational nonfiction book, from an editor with two decades' experience working with authors from all walks of life."I know I have a book in me.""I've always wanted to be an author.""People always ask me when I'm going to write my book.""I have a story to tell, but I never seem to make time to write."These are just a sampling of the messages Kelly Notaras hears every day from would-be authors around the globe. Life coaches with new methodologies for living on purpose . . . energy workers who've discovered new ways to prevent disease and teach self-healing... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1401955606
• ASIN: 1401955606
• ISBN: 1401955606
• Manufacturer: Hay House Inc.

Johnny Got His Gun

• ASIN: B00H279AN2
• ASIN: B00H279AN2
• ISBN: 0806537604
• Manufacturer: Citadel Underground

The Search for Anne Perry: The Hidden Life of a Bestselling Crime Writer

A New York Times Best Seller!In 1994, director Peter Jackson released the movie Heavenly Creatures, based on a famous 1950s matricide committed in New Zealand by two teenage girls embroiled in an obsessive relationship. The movie launched Jackson’s international career. It also forever changed the life of Anne Perry, an award-winning, bestselling crime writer, who at the time of the movie’s release was publicly outed at Juliet Hulme, one of the murderers. A new light was now cast, not only on Anne’s life but also on her novels, which feature gruesome and violent deaths and confront dark ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00J75IS3U
• ASIN: B00J75IS3U
• Manufacturer: Arcade

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le CarréWinner of the 2018 Cundhill History PrizeA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing todayMigration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpre... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06VTT24MX
• ASIN: B06VTT24MX
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Vintage: A Novel

A “spellbinding debut” and “a feast for all readers” (Library Journal, starred review) about a food journalist’s desperate attempt to save his career—and possibly, his marriage—through an epic quest that leads him from Burgundy through Russia, tracking an infamous bottle of wine.Ex-food journalist and nearly destitute wine connoisseur Bruno Tannenbaum has hit rock bottom. So when he stumbles on a clue hinting at a lost wine vintage, the 1943 Trevallier—stolen from France during WWII and now worth a fortune—Bruno is convinced that finding this wine could be the key to restorin... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00SP33XB2
• ASIN: B00SP33XB2
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Why I Write (Penguin Great Ideas)

A selection of George Orwell's politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series feature... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143036351
• ASIN: 0143036351
• ISBN: 0143036351
• Brand: Orwell, George
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures,

• UPC: 52921607

Broadway Heartbeat : Memoirs of a Press Agent

Broadway Heartbeat

• UPC: 464003665

Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France, V1 : The Silent Company June, 1940 to June, 1942

Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France, V1: The Silent Company June, 1940 to June,

• UPC: 408890701

Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France, V1 : The Silent Company June, 1940 to June, 1942

Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France, V1: The Silent Company June, 1940 to June,

• UPC: 173609303

Sherman Hoyt's Memoirs : The Best Known Yachtsman in the World

Tells The Interesting Story Of His Unique Experiences At Home And

• UPC: 391248842

All the Lives I Want : Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

"From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through the lives of pivotal female figures--from Sylvia Plath to Britney Spears--in the spirit of Chuck

• UPC: 55033754
• Rating: 4.0

Hide and Seek : The Story of a Wartime Agent

Xan Fielding's lively account of his two-year game of hide-and-seek with the Germans occupying Crete during World War

• UPC: 21972538

Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers - eBook

A deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writers—including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. Auden—Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel

• UPC: 101511401

All the Lives I Want : Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

"Alana Massey's prose is to brutal honesty what a mandolin is to a butter knife: she's sharper; she slices thinner; she shows the cross-section of a truth so deftly--so powerfully and cannily--it's hard to look

• UPC: 56197063
• Rating: 4.0

Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France V1 : The Silent Company June 1940 to June 1942

Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France V1: The Silent Company June 1940 to June

• UPC: 869667443