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 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

When a bidding war for her second book, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, hit $800,000 in the late 1990s, Orman told her literary agent to stop it there—even as offers climbed toward a million and a half. — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 10 June 2026

Felicity, who works as a literary agent in the United Kingdom, and Stanley have since welcomed two children, including son Matteo, 11, and daughter Emilia, 8. — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026

Rhymes for literary agent

• newsagent
• reagent
• subagent