The Denise Shannon Literary Agency is a New York-based boutique agency with a distinguished list of fiction and nonfiction authors. Particular areas of specialty include literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, biography, journalism, politics, social history, health and business. The agency’s clients have received numerous awards and honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award finalist medal, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.

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Lydia Davis delivers Yale’s Windham-Campbell Lecture

Man-Booker International Prize winner and National Book Award Finalist Lydia Davis was selected to give the prestigious keynote Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale University in September 2024. Yale University Press will publish a book expanding on this lecture. The books in this series have quickly become beloved works on craft from some of the most inventive […]

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