Fredrica Friedman is a literary agent with Fredrica S. Friedman & Co. Fredrica is also the president. Fredrica S. Friedman & Co. is a literary management firm that represents best-selling and award-winning authors of fiction and nonfiction, and writers in the earlier stages of their achievements.
Ms. Friedman is known for her unparalleled experience with the many aspects of an author’s careerÑeditorial and publishing first; and also publicity and marketing; e-books; foreign rights; television, cable, film, and the InternetÑand her legendary effectiveness in strategizing these elements to achieve her authors’ successes. She takes special pride in helping her clients realize their most ambitious long-term career plans. They are featured on the firm’s website, http://www.fredricafriedman.com. Ms. Friedman’s authors hold Pulitzer Prizes, Polk Awards, National Book Awards, Matrix Awards, and produce books that are national bestsellers and New York Times bestsellers every year. As The New York Times wrote in a profile, “Ms. Friedman takes nothing for granted and she leaves no page unturned in her approach to publishing.”
Prior to establishing her own literary management firm, Ms. Friedman was the Editorial Director, Associate Publisher and Vice President of Little, Brown & Co., a division of Time Warner, and the first woman to hold those positions. Among the best-selling and award-winning authors she brought to Little, Brown are James Patterson, Alan Dershowitz, Lionel Tiger, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Willie Morris, Richard Goodwin, Dan Rather, Cleveland Amory, Lynda Obst, Amos Elon, Christopher Ogden, Larry King, George Stephanopoulos and Henry Kissinger. She is the recipient of the Matrix Award for Career Achievement in Book Publishing.
Ms. Friedman is the Co-Founder of Women’s Campaign International, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of women in the emerging democracies. WCI works in countries in Latin America, Central Europe and Africa, and is affiliated with the Fels Center of Government of the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women’s Forum, the International Women’s Forum, the Agents’ Roundtable, and the Association of Authors’ Representatives. She has served on numerous boards, now including the Board of Directors of Women’s Campaign International, American Red Cross in Greater New York, the Board of Advisors of the Pace University Publishing Program, and the Board of Advisors of The Future of American Democracy Foundation at Yale University. Ms. Friedman holds a B.A. degree from Vassar College, and an M.A. degree from Columbia University.