Brenda Bowen Literary Agent – Book Agents List

Brenda Bowen Literary Agent is a book agent with The Book Group with offices in New York City. Scroll below to learn more and see how you can submit your book to Brenda Bowen for representation.

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Brenda Bowen Literary Agent Biography

Brenda Bowen Literary Agent is a book agent with The Book Group. She joined the agency in 2019. Brenda represents many wonderful children’s book authors and artists, among them national bestsellers Rosemary Wells and Hilary Knight; National Book Award finalist Martine Leavitt; award-winning novelist Donna Jo Napoli; New York Times Best Illustrated winners Carin Berger, G. Brian Karas, and Stephen Savage; poet and novelist George Ella Lyon; and newcomers Michelle Cuevas, Annette Simon, and Naoko Stoop.

Brenda has seen publishing from all sides: she began her career as an agent at Sanford J. Greenburger; she was a children’s book publisher for many years; she has written an adult novel; and she’s an award-winning author of some forty books for children.

Before joining Greenburger in the summer of 2009, Brenda held a variety of positions during her twenty-five-plus years in children’s publishing. She has been editorial director of Scholastic Press; Henry Holt & Company; Disney Book Group/Hyperion; and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Brenda has edited books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, and have won the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Caldecott Honor, the Printz Honor, and the Eisner Award. She’s a former member of the board of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and a past chair of the Children’s Book Council. She’s now an active member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, SCBWI and the Authors Guild.

As an agent, Brenda Bowen Book Agent continues to nurture creative careers and to work closely with clients on the editorial direction of their projects. Brenda’s an award-winning author of books for children and novels for adults, and writes under the name Margaret McNamara. She’s represented by Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.

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Representative Sales – Brenda Bowen Literary Agent

If you Give a Mouse an iPhone bt David Milgrim (Blue Rider Press)

Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin (Schwartz & Wade)

The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby (Knopf Children’s)

A Crankenstein Valentine by Dan Santat (Little, Brown Children’s)

A Hat for Mrs. Goldman by Michelle Edwards (Schwartz & Wade)

Thingy Things Series by Chris Raschka (Appleseed)

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