Barry Harbaugh

An agent with WLA Books (see other agents at this agency).

About

Barry Harbaugh joined WLA Books in 2025. He was previously an executive editor at Spiegel & Grau, a founding senior editor of Amazon Original Stories, and an editor at Harper, the flagship imprint of HarperCollins, where he debuted writers such as Alexandra Kleeman and Robert Kolker. Books he has acquired and edited have won international awards, become bestsellers, and been adapted into TV/film by HBO (Lovecraft Country), Netflix (Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery), ESPN’s 30-for-30 (When the Garden Was Eden), among others. Originally from Southern Indiana, he started in publishing as an intern, assistant, and fact-checker at Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, and Condé Nast Portfolio. He is interested in narrative nonfiction, literary and crime fiction, memoir and first-person hybrids, sports, current events, biography--writing that obsessively entertains, reveals a hidden realm, and broadens our sense of being alive.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

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Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres
Suspense/Thriller Open to all/most Subgenres

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Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

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Society/Culture: Current events.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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143 min | 169.3 mean avg | 182.0 median | 183 max days (22.8 std dev)

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Date compiled: 15 Sep 2026 02:50 UTC (7 hours, 17 minutes ago).

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Last Updated: 27 Aug 2026

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