Sandra Dijkstra An agent with Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (see other agents at this agency). About Agent to authors in the arenas of nonfiction (including history, politics, current affairs, business, and science) and fiction (literary and commercial), Sandra’s mission is to find and champion authors whose books make a difference. Bicoastal, Sandra was born in the Bronx, schooled in the East, and then came West to attend grad school at UC Berkeley, bringing to her agenting a literary taste honed by a Ph.D. in French literature, a keen editorial eye trained during a decade of university teaching, and, on the business front, her homegrown New York selling smarts. Within her first decade of agenting, Newsweek dubbed her "the best agent in the West," Esquire chose her as one of the nation's "top five literary agents," and the Los Angeles Times proclaimed her an "über-agent" and "the most powerful literary agent on the West Coast." This agent may not respond to all queries. After waiting 45 days, assume your submission will not be accepted. Country United States AI Policy Unknown AI policy Collapse section Fiction Temp Closed Sandra is, perhaps, best-known for her eye for quality fiction that sells well, representing authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan, Chitra Divakaruni, and Shobha Rao, among others. On the mystery/thriller side, she champions bestsellers Diane Mott Davidson (the Queen of the Culinary Mystery), and former Cosmopolitan editor Kate White. And, on the children's front, she is Stellaluna author/illustrator Janell Cannon's proud agent.Audience:Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults, Children.Genres: General Mystery/Crime Open to all/most Subgenres Suspense/Thriller Open to all/most SubgenresLengths: NovelStyles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.Topics: Open to all/most Topics.Submissions:Method: QueryTracker. Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Collapse section Nonfiction Temp Closed Sandra is also agent to major American historians, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Eric Foner, Steven Hahn, the late Leon Litwack, and National Book Award finalist Adrienne Mayor. She is proud to represent renowned historian of ideas, Michael Kazin; scholars of the slave trade, Marcus Rediker, and the late Ira Berlin; Immigration Studies historians Mae Ngai and Erika Lee; historian and BLM activist Barbara Ransby; historian of the “long view” of civilization, Ian Morris; Jewish Studies historian Steve Ross; Religious Studies historians Steven Prothero, Paula Fredriksen, and Matt Sutton; feminist historians Elaine Tyler May and the late Marilyn Yalom, as well as championing Susan Faludi’s Backlash; prize-winning LGBTQ historian Lillian Faderman; dance historian Lynn Garafola, and many more.The advocate for a leading group of investigative journalists, Sandra has championed the work of the Washington Post’s Tom Hamburger, the Los Angeles Times' Michael Hiltzik and the Wall Street Journal's Jess Bravin, and ProPublica's T. Christian Miller, among others.On the science front, her list features design guru Don Norman; the father of Group Therapy, Dr. Irvin Yalom; expert on aging, Dr. Gary Small; and uber-naturalist Bernd Heinrich. On the business side, she is proud to represent bestseller Joel Greenblatt, and to have agented Max DePree’s classic Leadership Is an Art, and succeeding books.Audience:Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults.Lengths: BookStyles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Mainstream.Topics: Open to all/most Topics including... Business/Finance: Business. History. Politics/Political Science. Science. Society/Culture: Current events.Submissions:Method: QueryTracker. Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary. 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