Amanda 'Binky' Urban is an active literary agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), currently closed to unsolicited submissions.
About Amanda Urban
Amanda Urban is a literary agent with Creative Artists Agency in New York, representing prominent authors and award-winning journalists across fiction and nonfiction. Her interests span literary fiction, memoir, biography, current affairs, and other serious nonfiction. Her client list has included internationally recognized writers such as Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jennifer Egan, Michael Pollan, Isabel Wilkerson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Walter Isaacson.
Urban joined CAA in 2022 following its acquisition of ICM Partners, where she had worked since 1980. During her tenure at ICM, she served for 19 years as co-director of the New York Literary Department and for six years as managing director of ICM Books in London. Earlier in her career, she held senior positions at New York Magazine, The Village Voice, and Esquire.
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