Sorche Fairbank is a literary agent with Fairbank Literary Representation. Since establishing Fairbank Literary Representation in 2002, Sorche has had the pleasure of working with a dynamic and varied list, representing best-selling authors, Edgar recipients, award-winning journalists, and many first-time authors. Her tastes in novels tend toward literary fiction, international voices, women’s voices, edgier work, wry voices, and sometimes darker topics.
On the nonfiction side, she is all about narrative. She has a strong interest in books that tackle current events and societal issues with a narrative treatment: women’s issues; class and race issues; plus the occasional memoir. She is also looking for quality lifestyle books (food, wine, and home design), humor, and pop culture. To date, she has signed on six terrific clients through Grub Street, the latest for whom she struck a deal worth over a million dollars for book and film. Subjects and genres not of interest include: sci-fi and fantasy, paranormal, children’s and YA, self-help, romance, sports fiction, and generally anything that opens with a dream scene and/or exhaustive descriptions of weather.
Notable authors and books represented by Fairbank Literary include: O. Henry Prize winner Charlotte Forbes; Pulitzer nominee and LA Times Cairo Bureau Chief Jeffrey Fleishman; Matthew Frederick and his best-selling 101 Things I Learned series; Travis Bradford, president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development and author of Solar Revolution; Ethan Gilsdorf (Fantasty Freaks and Gaming Geeks); Darci Klein (To Full Term, A Mother’s Triumph Over Miscarriage); Jonathan McCullough (A Tale Of Two Subs: An Untold Story Of World War II, Two Sister Ships, And Extraordinary Heroism); the estate of Robin Moore (The French Connection, The Green Berets, etc.); Xaviera Hollander (The Happy Hooker); syndicated cartoonist Man Martin; Edgar-winning mystery writer Rex Burns; Terry Border and his Bent Objects; and the fabulous Miroslav Penkov (East of the West).