Noun
an agent who represents an author in dealings with publishers
Source: WordNetHell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. Frank Sinatra
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them. Daniel Radcliffe
I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents. Irving Paul Lazar
I once had to dispense with a literary agent because she drank too much. She was very surprised but I pointed out to her, quite logically I thought, that one of us had to be sober and it certainly wan't going to be me. Jeffrey Bernard
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director. Daniel Radcliffe
The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130. Helen Oyeyemi