Amanda Urban

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Amanda "Binky" Urban
Amanda Urban (center) in 2011
Born1946 or 1947 (age 77–78)[1]
Alma materWheaton College (Massachusetts)
OccupationLiterary Agent
SpouseKen Auletta[1]
Awards2010 Maxwell E. Perkins Award

Amanda "Binky" Urban is an American literary agent and partner[2] at ICM Partners.[1]

Urban started at ICM as a literary agent,[3] worked as Co-Director of the ICM Literary Department in New York, and had been Managing Director of ICM Books in London from 2002 to 2008.[4] Before ICM, she was General Manager of New York Magazine[5] and The Village Voice, and Editorial Manager of Esquire Magazine.[6]

In December 2010, the Center for Fiction awarded Amanda Urban the Maxwell E. Perkins Award in recognition of her work and contribution to the field of fiction writing.[7][8] She was the first book agent selected to receive the award.[9]

Urban attended Kent Place School[10] and graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts as an English major in 1968.[11]

She has represented dozens of authors, among them Jennifer Egan, Bret Easton Ellis, and Nora Ephron.[12][13][4][14][11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Siegel, Tatiana (2016-04-13). "New York Power Pairing: ICM Partners' 'Binky' Urban and New Yorker Writer Ken Auletta Share a Literary Life". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  2. ^ "ICM Partners Ups 11 Agents to Partner". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  3. ^ Chase, Lisa (2018-10-16). "To Binky Urban, 'Power' Is a Male Word". The Cut. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  4. ^ a b "The Center for Fiction". www.centerforfiction.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  5. ^ "Ken Auletta Weds Amanda J. Urban". The New York Times. 1977-06-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  6. ^ "Amanda Urban - ICM". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  7. ^ "2010 Awards Dinner, Center for Fiction". centerforfiction.org. Archived from the original on 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  8. ^ Kroll, Justin (2010-12-06). "Insiders Kudos: Amanda 'Binky' Urban". Variety. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  9. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (2010-07-09). "Binky Urban Is First Book Agent To Win Center For Fiction's Maxwell Perkins Prize". Deadline. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  10. ^ Horner, Shirley. "About Books" Archived 2019-10-25 at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, September 4, 1994. Accessed October 25, 2019. "Its noted graduates include Assemblywoman Maureen Ogden, Republican of Millburn; Deborah Wiley, vice chairwoman of John Wiley & Sons, and Amanda Urban, a powerful literary agent."
  11. ^ a b Faught, Andrew. "The royal treatment". Wheaton Magazine of Wheaton College Massachusetts. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
  12. ^ ICM. "Amanda Urban, Clients". www.curtisbrown.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
  13. ^ Simon, Lizzie (2010-12-08). "Agent Wins Literary Prize". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  14. ^ Alexander Nazaryan On 10/14/13 at 6:01 PM EDT (2013-10-14). "Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch Neither Sings Nor Flies". Newsweek. Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2019-04-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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