Lara Love Hardin is a literary agent with and the founder of the True Literary Agency. She is also an author. Prior to founding True Literary, she was a senior literary agent and the Co-Ceo of Idea Architects. She has an MFA in creative writing and is a 4-time New York Times bestselling collaborative writer, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life, and 2018 Oprah Book Club pick, The Sun Does Shine, which she co-authored with Anthony Ray Hinton. In 2019 she won a Christopher Award for her work Òaffirming the highest values of the human spiritÓ. In 2019 she was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award and short-listed for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her memoir, THE MANY LIVES OF MAMA LOVE is being published in Summer 2023 by Simon & Schuster, and is being adapted as a television comedy series.