Katherine Flynn

Kneerim & Williams Agency

Katherine Flynn is a partner at Kneerim & Williams, where she has been a literary agent since 2008. Katherine represents both fiction and nonfiction and is a member of the agency's film and television department as well. She represents history, biography, politics, current affairs, investigative journalism, narrative nonfiction, adventure, true crime, science, nature, medicine, business, sociology, and psychology. She also represents both literary and commercial fiction, and is fond of urban or foreign locales, crime novels, insight into women's lives, biting wit, and historical settings. That said, she is open to anything that is well-written and contains a good, fresh story. Her clients are award-winning and bestselling writers. Recently, her authors have been selected or nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the George Washington Prize, the Hillman Prize for the Common Good, the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the New York Times Best of the Year list, Amazon’s Best of the Year list, the New York Public Library Best Book for Teens, and many other accolades. Prior to joining the agency, Katherine worked at the publishing company of Bedford/St. Martin's and the literary agency of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc. in New York. She has taught English literature and composition to high school students and worked in a rare book shop. She serves as the publishing consultant to Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute and on the board of the Boston Book Festival. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University and then pursued her Ph.D. in History at Brown University, where she is now A.B.D.

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Boston, MA, 02110

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Submissions Open

Subject Focus

Fiction: Debut
Fiction: Mystery/Crime
Fiction: New Adult
Fiction: Women’s/Romance
Fiction: General/Other Fiction
Fiction: Literary
NF: Anthology
NF: Biography
NF: Business/Investing/Finance
NF: Cooking
NF: Health
NF: History/Politics/Current Affairs
NF: Narrative
NF: Parenting
NF: Pop Culture
NF: Science
NF: Sports
NF: True Crime
NF: General/Other Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction: Advice/Relationships
Children’s: Middle Grade Non-Fiction
Children’s: Young Adult Fiction
Children’s: Young Adult Non-Fiction

Experience

15

Years of Industry Experience

2018

Member Since

Submission Requirements

How to successfully present your work

Send submissions to submissions@kwlit.com and address Katherine Flynn