Esther Newberg is an active literary agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), currently closed to unsolicited submissions.
About Esther Newberg
Esther Newberg is a literary agent with Creative Artists Agency and one of the longest-tenured figures in American book publishing. She entered literary representation in the 1970s after an earlier career in politics and spent decades at International Creative Management, where she is now a senior leader of their literary department.
Esther moved to CAA when the agency acquired ICM in 2022. She represents an extensive list of prominent fiction and nonfiction authors.
She has been an active agent for over fifty years.
Esther Newberg — Literary Agent
Submitting Your Work to Esther Newberg
Esther Newberg is currently closed to unsolicited submissions.
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