Literary agent, owner of E. J. McCarthy Agency.

Graduate of Fordham University. Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Former executive editor with more than twenty years book-publishing experience (Bantam Doubleday Dell, Presidio Press, Ballantine/Random House).

Mr. McCarthy represents history, military history, politics, biography, memoir, media, public policy, sports, other nonfiction, and select fiction.

E. J. McCarthy Agency has placed books with such publishers as Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Press, St. Martin's Press/Macmillan, Ballantine Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Presidio Press, Pocket Books, Bantam Books, John Wiley & Sons, Berkley Books, and many others.

Our agency represents authors whose books have appeared on The New York Times Bestseller List and authors who've received distinguished literary awards, including the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.

Books represented include: ONE BULLET AWAY by Nathaniel Fick, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (New York Times bestseller); THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE by Craig M. Mullaney, Penguin Press (New York Times bestseller); WHY WE LOST by Daniel P. Bolger, Eamon Dolan Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 8 SECONDS OF COURAGE by Flo Groberg and Tom Sileo (Simon & Schuster); WHEN BOOKS WENT TO WAR by Molly Guptill Manning, Hougton Mifflin Harcourt (New York Times bestseller).

Please query by email at: ejmagency@gmail.com