Gail Hochman
Brandt & Hochman Literary Agency

Gail Hochman has been a literary agent since l977, and is currently President of New York based Brandt & Hochman Literary Agency, and the President of the Association of Authors' Representatives (AAR) the largest professional organization of literary agents in the US. She specialized in literary fiction and memoir as well as children's books. Her clients include Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham; acclaimed novelist Scott Turow; National Book Award winner Julia Glass; Ursula Hegi; Scott Smith: Ann Hood, memoirists including Jacki Lyden, Joan Wickersham and Beverly Donofrio, and numerous notable children's authors including Mary Pope Osborne, Avi, Norton Juster and Cynthia Kadohata.



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Until very recently, it was a clear ethical breech for an agent to charge an author anything for services. But in a world where agents have to learn about self-publishing options as part of the full range of reasonable commercial choices, is it possible for agents to steer authors to all the right choices, never charge them... Read More