Sanford J. Greenburger Associates
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Sanford J. Greenburger Associates is a major New York literary agency.{{Cite web|url=http://www.writersservices.co.uk/agent/us09/sanford_greenburger.htm|title = Sanford J. Greenburger Associates Inc|date = 4 June 2014}} It represents a wide variety of world-renowned writers, including Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as contemporary best-selling authors, such as Dan Brown and Nelson Demille.
The agency was founded in 1932 by Sanford J. Greenburger, an agent who pioneered book scouting, and was a privately owned company until 1971. Following Greenburger's death in 1971, the agency became a partnership owned by the affiliated agents.{{cite web |url=http://www.greenburger.com/code/about.htm |title=SJGA >> about the agency |accessdate=2010-01-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127113500/http://www.greenburger.com/code/about.htm |archive-date=2010-01-27 }} It currently has eleven partner agents, a foreign rights director, and support staff.
Sanford J. Greenburger Associates is known as a prestige launch pad for literary agents and book editors, many of whom began their publishing careers as assistants or junior agents at the agency.{{cite web |url=http://www.parkliterary.com/staff_bios.asp |title=Parkliterary |accessdate=2010-01-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907051426/http://www.parkliterary.com/staff_bios.asp |archive-date=2012-09-07 }} Several former high-level editors and publishers have also joined the agency's staff.http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/the_revolving_door/lisa_gallagher_hired_as_agent_at_sanford_j_greenburger_associates_142045.asp?c=rss{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6660730.html?q=sanford+j%2E+greenburger|title=/404}}