literary agent

noun

: a person who helps writers get their works published

Examples of literary agent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In addition, an awkward meeting between Ed and a smooth literary agent (Jake Lacy), along with a mini-subplot involving phone calls from Ed’s frustrated sister about their dying brother, come off slightly wedged in. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Rose had some inroads in Bourdain world, and eventually landed the guys a meeting with Bourdain’s longtime literary agent Kimberly Witherspoon and with Ottavia Busia, his widow and mother of his child. — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026

In 2012, Tucci married Blunt’s sister Felicity (a literary agent), making the actress his sister-in-law. — Ayana Herndon, InStyle, 30 July 2026

Now get to the nearest coffee shop and pound out eighty thousand words so that a friend-of-a-friend literary agent can tell you to rewrite the whole thing with more gay hockey. — Emily Winter, New Yorker, 23 June 2026

Rhymes for literary agent

• newsagent
• reagent
• subagent