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.
THE BOOK OF UNCONFORMITIES: Speculations on Lost Time by Hugh Raffles has won the 2023 J.I. Staley Prize for Advanced Research and a 2023 Arts & Letters Award in Literature. The J.I Staley Prize is awarded annually to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology.
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