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Welcome to the Grosvenor Literary Agency, now merged with Kneerim &Williams Literary Agency
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Deborah Grosvenor has worked in the book publishing industry for over twenty years, as an agent, an editor, and selling foreign and subsidiary rights. As an editor, she acquired and edited several hundred nonfiction books, although her best-known acquisition was a first work of fiction, The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, when she was director of book acquisitions and subsidiary rights at the Naval Institute Press. Deborah also signed up best-selling author Homer Hickham's first work, Torpedo Junction, and helped launch best-selling author Stephen Coonts's first novel, Flight of the Intruder.
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- Grosvenor Lit was formed in 1996, with a stable of about 50 authors including Eleanor Clift, Mort Kondrake, and numerous New York Times bestsellers and Pulitzer Prize winners.
- Fiction: Literary and commercial, especially historical, southern, thriller, suspense, womens' fiction. Nonfiction: narrative nonfiction, history, biography, politics, current affairs, memoir, the South, adventure, business, humor, psychology, and science.
- Ms. Grosvenor is a frequent speaker and faculty member at writers conferences such as the Associated Writers Programs, Virginia Festival of the Book, PNWA, Perfect Words (New Orleans), the Johns Hopkins Writing Program, and the Baltimore Writers Program.
- Agency now merged with Kneerim and Williams; is Washington-based with New York, Boston, LA and Maryland offices.
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Tom Clancy on Deborah Grosvenor:
"This is the lady who 'discovered' me, who first decided I had potential as a writer, and whose tireless efforts overcame a good deal of bureaucratic inertia to get my first book, The Hunt for Red October, published.
Deborah is, simply, a consummate professional, bright, thoughtful, hardworking, and also possessed of a genuine instinct for her business. She is also one of the most personable people it has ever been my good fortune to meet."
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