I actually said to him, ‘David [Carr], can you really remember enough of your life to write a memoir?’ And he said, ‘Okay, fair enough,’ and he left me and wrote a huge best seller, The Night of the Gun. I shouldn’t have doubted him.” —BINKY URBAN LITERARY AGENT / Represents four Nobel laureates: Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Malala Yousafzai, and Nadia Murad
AMANDA “BINKY” URBAN started on the road to becoming a super-agent in book publishing thanks to a chance encounter with Mrs. Geffael, formerly of Short Hills, New Jersey, on June 5, 1968. Back then, Urban, 21 and freshly graduated from Wheaton College, wasn’t expected by anyone in her milieu to go to work at all. She’d been raised in affluent Summit, New Jersey, where…