KATHERINE FAUSSET
Katherine Fausset is an agent and vice president at Curtis Brown, Ltd. where she represents primarily literary and upmarket fiction, genre fiction, and select non-fiction.
Her clients include Emily St. John Mandel, Laura van den Berg, Benjamin Percy, Jami Attenberg, Crystal Hana Kim, Elise Juska, Chip Cheek, Cara Black, Amy Lin, Duane Swierczynski, Ioan Grillo, Kyle Minor, and the Estate of Lucia Berlin. She currently lives in New Orleans.
What I'm Looking For
Literary and upmarket fiction: I'm particularly drawn to knotty family dynamics, books set outside of the US, as well as to the strange, the dark, and the humorous.
Memoirs written with a special attention to the prose style, such as Amy Lin's recently published HERE AFTER.
Sample Titles or Authors
The Stone Home, by Crystal Hana Kim
Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
The All-Night Sun, by Diane Zinna
Specializes In
FICTION: Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction, Fantasy, Crime
NONFICTION: Memoir
Considers
FICTION: Commercial Fiction, Crime, Family Saga, Historical Fiction, Humor/Satire, Literary Fiction, Multi-Cultural/Global Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers/Suspense
NONFICTION: Narrative, Memoir
