Lauren Sharp
Lauren Sharp represents award‑winning journalists, historians, scientists, and New York Times bestselling authors. Her nonfiction list spans politics, history, narrative nonfiction, current affairs, and science, and includes voices from top-tier publications, leading academic institutions, and renowned think tanks.
Lauren holds a BA in English from the University of South Carolina and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati. Before joining Aevitas, she served as rights director at ICM/Sagalyn and interned with the Ross Yoon Agency and with Joseph-Beth Books.
She is passionate about discovering and nurturing fascinating, fresh, and important nonfiction with a focus on academics whose work transcends academia, narrative journalists, historians, and public thinkers whose work shapes civic discourse.
Represents
Profit and Loss
Mariachi Dreams: A Year of Music, Magic, and Belonging on the Border
Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves, and Art of Whitney Houston
The Black Widow of Hazel Green
Raised to Be Free: A Queer Perspective on Parenting
Now We See the World Together: Five Midwesterners and the Revolution of Modern Art
America Enslaved: Indigenous Enslavement in the English Atlantic and the United States
Should Kids Play Sports?
Fastest Girl
Truth’s Pilgrim: Walter Lippmann and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy, 1917-1967
No More Miss America!
START WITH A BEAR
Capable
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
New York, NY 10010
