Wendy Strothman
Wendy Strothman represents Pulitzer Prize winning authors: David Blight, author of the bestselling biography Frederick Douglass; David Kertzer, author of The Pope and Mussolini; and Caleb McDaniel, author of The Sweet Taste of Liberty. She also represents Ruth Simmons, former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View who is publishing a memoir called Up Home: One Girl’s Journey in 2023. Wendy works with many prominent historians, including Joanne Freeman, author of The Field of Blood; Alan Mikhail, author of God’s Shadow; Martha Hodes, author of the forthcoming My Hijacking; Wendy Warren, author of Pulitzer finalist New England Bound; journalists including Linda Greenhouse, author of Justice on the Brink; James Scott, author of Pulitzer finalist Target Tokyo; Amy Ellis Nutt, author of the bestselling transgender book, Becoming Nicole; legal scholars Richard Thompson Ford, author of Dress Codes and The Race Card; Deborah Archer, president of the ACLU and author of the forthcoming Locked In and Left Out; Nicholas Bowie and Daphna Renan, authors of the forthcoming Supremacy; naturalists Kenn Kaufman, author of the forthcoming The Birds that Audubon Missed; Scott Edwards, author of the forthcoming American Journey: Birds, a Bicycle, and Hope Across America; and biographers Benjamin Taylor, author of Here We Are and the forthcoming biography of Willa Cather and Tess Chakalakal, author of a forthcoming biography of Charles Chesnutt.
Before founding the Strothman Agency in 2003, Wendy was the publisher of Trade & Reference Books at Houghton Mifflin Company where she oversaw books from Curious George ® to the American Heritage Dictionary and the Peterson Field Guides; at Houghton she also edited works by Philip Roth, Arthur Schlesinger, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Before Houghton, she was publisher of Beacon Press where she published Marian Wright Edelman and Cornel West. She started her career at the University of Chicago Press.
Wendy is the Vice President of the Authors Guild Foundation and was a trustee of Brown University; she and her husband, a pipe organ builder, and their golden doodle Farley divide their time between the coast of Maine and the Berkshires, with frequent forays into New York City.
Represents
God’s Shadow: The Ottomans and the World (Liveright)
My Egypt Archive (Yale)
South to Freedom
The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Future, Chicago
Shadows Bright as Glass: The Changed Brain and the Search for Self, Simon & Schuster
The Teenage Brain, coauthor with Frances, HarperCollins
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of a Family, Random House
Supplying the Slave Trade
Education’s End (Yale)
The Assault on American Excellence (S&S)
After Disbelief (Yale)
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: A History of the Russian Dissidents
Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World, Basic
Susan Sontag (Jewish Lives Series)
Somewhere toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and Emancipation
American Conquerer: The Life of William Techumseh Sherman
Our Sister Republics: The United States in the Age of American Revolutions (Liveright)
Trials of Allegiance: Treason and the American Revolution (Oxford)
Treason! A Citizen’s Guide (Ecco)
Augustine the African
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside The Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture (Chicago)
Stuff: How We Came to Love and Loathe the Things that Make Us Human (Chicago)
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (Viking, 2015)
Shadow Act: Elegy for American Journalist James Foley (McSweeneys)
Lost: How Extinction Has Shaped Our Past and Our Future
Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
Christian’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular (Princeton)
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (Random House)
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
The Pope Who Would be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe (Random House)
The Pope At War (Random House)
Changing Race: Saving Mussolini’s Jews
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Life Work (Beacon)
Essays after Eighty (HMH)
The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (HMH)
A Carnival of Losses (HMH)
String Too Short to be Saved
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT (Bold Type Books)
'The Hardest, Longest Race’: Ford, Shawmut, and the Contest That Shaped America
The Predator State (Free Press, 2008)
Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
The End of Normal (S&S)
Inequality and Instability: The World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (Oxford)
The Greek Crisis (Yale)
The Economics of Apocalypse (Chicago)
Field of Blood: Congressional Violence and the Coming of the Civil War (FSG)
Thin Ice: Science, History, and the Fate of the Earth
Impermissible Punishments: Prisoners’ Constitutional Rights and Changing Prisons in America
Kaufman Focus Guides to nature and Kingbird Highway (HarperCollins)
A Season on the Wind: The Wonders of Migration (HarperCollins)
The Banjo: A Cultural History (Harvard)
Haiti, a history (Metropolitan/Holt)
The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (Basic)
Now We See the World Together: Five Midwesterners and the Revolution of Modern Art
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett and Twelve Months That Transformed the Court (Random House)
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Michael Graetz) (S&S)
When the World Went South: The Rise of the Global South and the Making of Our Times
Death by A Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Ian Shapiro) (Princeton)
The Wolf at the Door: Fighting Economic Insecurity (with IanShapiro) (Harvard)
Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People
The Tears of a Man Flow Inward: Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi (Random House)
The Lone Dissenter: John Marshall Harlan, Plessy, and the Power of Conscience (S&S)
Freedom Riders
The Sound of Freedom
Arthur Ashe
The Virtues of Vice: How Mischief Made Us Modern
The Race Card (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Rights Gone Wrong (FSG, 2011)
Universal Rights: Down to Earth (Norton, 2011)
Dress Codes: Crimes of Fashion and Laws of Attire (S&S)
American Journey: Birds, Survival, and Hope on a Bicycle Across the Country
Moment in the Sun: Freedom in Antebellum Black Manhattan
Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Success and Failure (S&S)
How the Body Knows Its Mind (S&S)
The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders’ Case for an Activist Government, Yale
A Privilege to Die: Hezbollah, Israel, and the War with No End S&S
Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story S&S
Capturing Music (Norton)
Scrolls (Norton)
Early Music, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of Europe’s First War with China
Tony’s War: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Greece
Sweet Taste of Liberty: Henrietta Wood and the Case for Reparations (Oxford)
New York, NY 10010
