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Harriet Garner LeFavour
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Harriet (Hattie) is a senior editor of nonfiction at Bloomsbury Publishing. She is looking for reported narratives, cultural and political histories, biographies, essays, and criticism. She also acquires memoir and is building Bloomsbury’s cookbook list. She does not currently acquire fiction. In NONFICTION, she is looking for sharp books that marry the cultural and the political; first-person reported narratives; histories with a contemporary hook, told through the lens of a question, idea, or movement; dynamic memoirs; social and oral histories; investigative journalism; and narratives or essays that engage with food and agriculture, social class, supply chains and economic systems, labor and political movements, design and architecture, the Middle East, the American South and Appalachia, music writing (pop or otherwise), subcultures, addiction, public policy, consumerism, the environment, film and TV, and human vice. She often works with academics, journalists, and professionals looking to write for a trade audience. She is not looking for books with a prescriptive bent including wellness, business, and self-help; illustrated books; guidebooks; gift books; wide-eyed books about celebrity; most pre-18th century history books; or ruminative nature writing. Her ideal nonfiction books are How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr, Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert, Mr. B by Jennifer Homans, Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall, Murderland by Caroline Fraser, The Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler, Chip War by Chris Miller, Black Flags by Joby Warrick, The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr, The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer, Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker, No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder, The Freaks Came Out to Write by Tricia Romano, Homeland by Richard Beck, The Editor by Sara B. Franklin, High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris, The Year the Clock Broke by John Ganz, Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein, Against Everything by Mark Greif, Soldiers and Kings by Jason de Leon, Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, Evicted by Matthew Desmond, The American Way of Eating by Tracie McMillan, The Design of Childhood by Alexandra Lange, Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and all writers reminiscent of Barbara Ehrenreich, Pauline Kael, Susan Orlean, or Susan Faludi. In COOKBOOKS, she is looking for functional, stylistically ambitious, unpretentious books brought together by a strong sense of place, culture, identity, or aesthetics. She loves books with entertaining angles, restaurant cookbooks, baking books, and Southern food, and she’s interested in niche regional tastes (Appalachian, New Orleanian, Floridian, etc.). She’s very interested in drinks books, and she loves concept-based cookbooks that focus on a specific meal, need, or occasion. She is not looking for highly commercial books or media tie-ins, and she rarely works with influencers
Submission Guidelines
AGENTED SUBMISSIONS ONLY Please note that I only acquires in the adult space and cannot accept submissions for YA, children’s, business, self-help, or wellness books. As of 9/1/2024, I exclusively acquire nonfiction. Vital Info @HattieLeFavour @HattieLeFavour Linkedin Website
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