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Faye Bender, PARTNER
With a focus on strong collaborative working relationships with her authors, Faye represents fiction for readers aged eight to adult. Her authors have won many awards and honors, including the Newbery Medal, the Schneider Family Book Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Indies Choice Book of the Year Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, and the International Latino Book Award, and have been finalists for the National Book Award and the Dublin Literary Award. Her clients' books have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Book Review Notable Books, selected by national celebrity book clubs, and adapted for stage and screen.
Faye is always excited to work with authors with a strong, fresh narrative voice and unique take on story, and she works with her authors for the length and breadth of their careers. Born and raised in Denver, Faye lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
A few books Faye loves: Good Material by Dolly Alderton, The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue, All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby, The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez