Heather Mitchell is a literary agent with the Gelfman Schneider/ICM Literary Agency. Heather was born in Montreal, Canada. She started her career in Paris as a sports agent and continued for 15 years before the allure of books brought her skills as an agent to New York and to Gelfman Schneider in 2006. Heather represents a number of bestselling authors, but she is particularly interested in narrative non-fiction, historical fiction and young debut authors with strong voices.