Andrea Brown is the President of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Inc. Founded in New York City in 1981. It was the first literary agency to represent both children’s book authors and illustrators, and the agency now represents fiction, non-fiction and children’s book authors with five literary agents.
Prior to opening her own firm, Andrea was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and worked in the editorial departments of Random House and Dell. In 1990, she moved her literary agency to Northern California. Her literary agency has sold approximately 1,000 books to publishers, from toddler board books to serious, award-winning young adult and adult fiction. She has been quoted in the NEW YORK POST, CNN.com, Yahoo News, FORBES, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and REUTERS NEWS SERVICE and many others. Andrea has published articles and published a chapter about the children’s book field in THE PORTABLE WRITER’S CONFERENCE, published by Quill Driver Books. She has been quoted in the NEW YORK POST, CNN.com, Yahoo News, FORBES, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and REUTERS NEWS SERVICE.
President of the San Francisco chapter of the Women’s National Book Association for four years, she was the National Pannell Award Chair that gives awards to booksellers at the Book Expo Association. She is also a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Andrea has had her own cable television show in New York City, “An Afternoon with Children’s Books,” and has appeared on C-SPAN’S “Book Notes”, and public television’s “Authors and Critics.” Her book, Writers’ and Artists’ Hideouts: Great Getaways for Seducing the Muse, published by Quill Driver Books, is available from Amazon.com
She is the Executive Director of the Big Sur Writing Workshop Series, one for children’s books, one for adult fiction, and one for adult non-fiction. Andrea speaks at many writer’s conferences including the Maui Writers Conference, Asilomar, San Diego State University, UCLA, Palm Springs Writers Conference, Southwest Writers Conference, Pikes Peak Writers Conference, Pacific Northwest Writer’s Conference, Texas Writer’s League, The Society of Children’s Book Writers conferences, and more.
