| Curtis Brown currently employs 32 people in our
New York and San Francisco offices. Since its inception, the agency has
handled more than 50,000 contracts. Our clients include many bestselling
authors, award winners, and some of the leading minds and voices in the
world. Curtis Brown boasts innovative and successful film and foreign
rights departments, and is one of the few literary agencies that handle
ancillary rights in-house, providing a motivated team working on our
clients' behalf across all platforms. We are well positioned to take
advantage of the new opportunities afforded by technological innovations,
and we are aggressive in achieving the best possible terms for our clients.
With the media industries constantly changing, Curtis Brown continues to
evolve and excel while maintaining its commitment to the principles that
have made it a key player in the publishing and entertainment world for
nearly a century.
Brief History
Albert Curtis Brown was born in 1866 in
upstate New York. He moved to England in 1888 to head the International
Publishing Bureau and started his own literary agency in London in 1905.
As war clouds gathered in Europe, Brown escorted two members of the London
staff to New York City and established the U.S. branch of Curtis Brown
Ltd. in July of 1914. The day after Brown's return to England, World
War I began. The New York office was initially established to market
US rights in works by Curtis Brown's British clients, including D.H.
Lawrence, C.S. Lewis, Daphne du Maurier, A.A. Milne and Winston Churchill.
The agency also had a mandate to cultivate American authors, which it
did in short order, adding key figures to its venerable list, including
W.H. Auden, Theodore Dreiser, Ayn Rand and Ogden Nash. Separate offices
of Curtis Brown exist in New York, London, Toronto and Sydney, each operating
as an independent company. The New York branch of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
was one of the founders, in 1928, of the Society of Authors' Representatives
(SAR), and was instrumental in negotiating the SAR's merger with the
Independent Literary Agents Association (founded in 1977) to form the
Association of Authors’ Representatives
(AAR) in 1991. All of our agents are members of the AAR and are bound by
the AAR's Canon of Ethics. We remain committed to the responsible and ethical
representation that made us an industry leader. |
