0 someone who represents a writer and tries to get his or her work published
1 a person whose job is to help writers sell their books to companies so that they can be published:
He dedicates the book to a famous literary agent.
It is in the contract between the author and the publisher guided by a literary agent or lawyer that these arrangements are organised.
He later became a literary agent to writers and a casting agent to actors.
He later became a theatrical and literary agent and was married three times.
He was recently signed by a literary agent.
He'd approached a literary agent after being asked to write a book about architecture, not realising the agency also represented television presenters.
Bonjour, friend, and good-bye, literary agent, she wrote to him.
She wants unspecified damages from a son-in-law of her former literary agent and related entities.
