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What Kate is looking for
Kate represents literary and upmarket fiction as well as a range of narrative nonfiction and select memoir, and is interested in food, running, obsessives, unconventional families, art, global stories, social justice, mental health, medicine, and the environment. She loves working with journalists. Across all her projects, she looks for authentic voices and books that uncover something off-kilter in the everyday, or conversely something relatable in the extraordinary.
Notable sales & clients
- What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross
- Project 562 by Matika Wilbur
- To Capture What We Cannot Keep by Beatrice Colin
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What genres does Kate Johnson represent?
Kate Johnson represents Upmarket Fiction, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction.
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