Urban started at ICM as a literary agent,[3] worked as Co-Director of the ICM Literary Department in New York, and had been Managing Director of ICM Books in London from 2002 to 2008.[4] Before ICM, she was General Manager of New York Magazine[5] and The Village Voice, and Editorial Manager of Esquire Magazine.[6]
In December 2010, the
Center for Fiction awarded Amanda Urban the
Maxwell E. Perkins Award in recognition of her work and contribution to the field of fiction writing.[7][8] She was the first book agent selected to receive the award.[9]
^Horner, Shirley.
"About Books"Archived 2019-10-25 at the
Wayback Machine, The New York Times, September 4, 1994. Accessed October 25, 2019. "Its noted graduates include Assemblywoman Maureen Ogden, Republican of Millburn; Deborah Wiley, vice chairwoman of John Wiley & Sons, and Amanda Urban, a powerful literary agent."
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abFaught, Andrew.
"The royal treatment". Wheaton Magazine of Wheaton College Massachusetts.
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