How to Snag a Narrative Nonfiction Agent: Where to Target Your Queries

Narrative Nonfiction is a big market in the book publishing industry. If you are writing one you know that getting the right literary agent, one that has a specialty in the narrative nonfiction division, is crucial to your book's success or failure. Below are literary agents that all deal with narrative nonfiction and are all, at the time of this article's writing, taking submissions and queries. Each literary agent is profiled with contact information and the other genres they represent. Polish off that query, make that hook the best it can be, and good luck in your quest for representation.

Peter McGuigan
Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
55 Fifth Avenue, 15th floor
New York, NY 10003
pmcguigan@sjga.com
(No Email Queries, please)
Represents History, Biography, Science, Drama and Music, Pop Culture, and Narrative Nonfiction.
They are currently accepting queries at this agency.

Theresa Park
The Park Literary Group
156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1134
New York, NY 10010
info@parkliterary.com
(No Email Queries, please)
Represents Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Women's Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Adventure, History, Sports, Biography, Food and Lifestyle, Science, Self Help, Cookbooks, Memoirs, Travel, Spirituality, Current Affairs, Business, Narrative Nonfiction, Finance, Psychology, and Cultural Social Issues.
They are currently accepting queries at this agency.

Elyse Cheney
Elyse Cheney Literary Associates
156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1134
New York, NY 10010
elyse@cheneyliterary.com
(No Email Queries, please)
Represents Literary Fiction, Horror, Romance, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, History, Sports, Biography, Multi-Cultural, Women's Issues, and Narrative Nonfiction.
They are currently accepting queries at this agency.