Susan Schulman, A Literary Agency, is a boutique agency that represents fiction and non-fiction, playwrights, and subsidiary film and translation rights for other agencies and publishers. The agency was founded in 1980 by Susan Schulman who, prior to establishing her own agency, was an agent at International Creative Management in the Literary Department. Prior to working at ICM, Susan taught History of the English Language and Linguistics as well as Renaissance Drama and American Literature courses on the college level. Additionally Susan served as Associate Publisher of Ohio University Press and acquired over 100 titles for the Press.

The agency’s areas of focus include: commercial fiction and non-fiction, literary fiction, narrative and political non-fiction and business/investing/finance non-fiction, health related books, memoir, self-help, wisdom and body/mind/sprit, non-fiction books about the arts, in particular creativity and writing, and in particular fiction and non-fiction for, by and about women and women’s issues and interests. The agency also represents its own writers for the theatre, as well as film, television and foreign and translation rights for other agencies and for publishers.