Lindsay Edgecombe, Agent – Selected Deals
Narrative Nonfiction:
Shana Knizhnik's and MSNBC's Irin Carmon and NOTORIOUS RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a
biography of the supreme court justice and her role in the women's movement, including images inspired by the internet
meme of the same name, to Julia Cheiffetz at Dey Street Books, in an exclusive submission. New York Times bestseller.
Linda Loewenthal represents Irin Carmon. Film and musical rights: Michelle Weiner at CAA.
Atlantic and Foreign Policy journalist Sulome Anderson's THE HOSTAGE'S DAUGHTER, an intimate look at the effect
her father Terry Anderson's seven years in captivity during the Lebanon Hostage Crisis and the ensuing Iran-Contra
Scandal had on both her family and on the United States, and the ramifications from those events that are still playing out
in the Middle East today, to Denise Oswald at Dey Street Books, in a pre-empt.
Explorer and conservationist Paul Rosolie's MOTHER OF GOD: A Young Man's Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries
of the Western Amazon, recounting the author's adventures in the jungle, to celebrate the greatest proliferation of life on
Earth: including a run-in with an uncontacted tribe; a discovery of a never-before-seen "floating forest" ecosystem; and
an encounter with a dying jaguar, wounded at the hands of poachers, to Michael Signorelli at Harper, at auction.
Film/TV: UTA. A Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. Nominated for the 2014 Banff Mountain Book
Competition.
Monique Brinson Demery's FINDING THE DRAGON LADY, a biography of Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the first
lady of South Vietnam just before the 1963 coup, who rose to power as one of the most influential women of her
time, and, despised by the Kennedy administration and infamous for her political commentary, disappeared from
history before being found by the author in Paris in the years before her death, to Clive Priddle at Public Affairs,
at auction.
Medical director of Bellevue Hospital Dr. Eric Manheimer's TWELVE PATIENTS, a memoir that uses the
plights of twelve very different patients - from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners from Riker's
Island, to undocumented immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons - to illustrate larger societal issues, to John Brodie
at Grand Central, in a pre-empt. TV: Joe Veltre at Gersh. Optioned to Sony.
Founder of the Sister Spit reading series and XOJane contributor Michelle Tea's HOW TO GROW UP, a humorous
memoir about maturing without selling out, pitched as in the vein of Caitlin Moran and Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar
column, to Kate Napolitano at Plume, at auction.
Science:
Seattle University psychologist Therese Huston's HOW WOMEN DECIDE, revealing the gender gaps in
previous research and exploring new research and case studies on women's patterns and how they can make wiser
choices, to Courtney Young at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in a pre-empt.
Former Nature Neuroscience editor-in-chief Sandra Aamodt's book drawn from her recent TED talk on why
weight is the least useful metric for health, how the brain undermines our attempts to diet, why weight cycling is
worse for you than being moderately overweight, and how to work with -- as opposed to against -- your brain to
maintain a healthy body, to Niki Papadopoulos at Current, at auction.
Smith College Director of Wellness Education and Kinsey Ph.D. Dr. Emily Nagoski’s COME AS YOU ARE, about what the brand
new research on women’s sexuality really teaches us, what we’ve been getting wrong for decades, and why “pink Viagra” will never
exist and isn’t necessary, to Sarah Knight at Simon and Schuster, at auction. New York Times bestseller.
Other Nonfiction:
Director of the Wurtele Center for Work and Life at Smith College, Jessica Bacal's career guide MISTAKES I MADE AT WORK, a
collection of interviews with J. Courtney Sullivan, Judith Warner, Rachel Simmons, and other high-achieving women about how they
succeeded because they learned from their mistakes - not because they never made any, to Kate Napolitano at Plume.
Founder of all natural skincare line S.W. Basics, featured in Goop, O, and Vogue, whose products all have less than five ingredients,
Adina Grigore's natural beauty book, includes her complete holistic coaching program, nutrition tips, and 30+ beauty recipes using
ingredients already in your kitchen, to Julie Will at Harper Wave, at auction.
Fiction:
Shanthi Sekaran's LUCKY BOY, a novel of identity, motherhood, and the pursuit of the American dream that
follows a nineteen-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant as she tries to make her way in the United States
despite an unexpected pregnancy, and an Indian-American wife whose overwhelming desire for a child will lead
both women down a path where right and wrong become irrelevant in the face of a mother's love, to Tara Singh
Carlson at Putnam, in a pre-empt, by Lindsay Edgecombe at Levine Greenberg Rostan (world).
New Yorker cartoonist Victoria Roberts's debut illustrated novel AFTER THE FALL, about a family that lives in an Upper East Side
penthouse but loses everything and decides to recreate its lavish home in Central Park, complete with Andy Warhol paintings hung in
trees, takeout delivered in the form of giant tin-foil swans, and buried bottles of burgundy, to Amy Cherry at Norton.
University of Iowa professor and Chilean novelist, columnist, and scholar, Roberto Ampuero's THE NERUDA
CASE, the author's first book to be translated into English, in which a young detective is hired to fulfill the dying
wish of the poet and revolutionary, Pablo Neruda, to Sarah Bowlin at Riverhead. With quotes from Isabelle
Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa.