Susan Bergholz to Retire, Transfer Control of Agency to Stuart Bernstein
Effective June 1, Susan Bergholz of Susan Bergholz Literary Services will retire as a literary agent and transfer control of her eponymous agency to Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists.
Several of Bergholz's authors, including Julia Alvarez and Sandra Cisneros, have already begun working with Bernstein on new projects, and control of their backlists will soon follow. A number of authors who already have new representation will transfer backlist to those agents or take control themselves.
Bergholz, who began her agency in 1983 after many years as a bookseller and founding buyer of Endicott Booksellers in New York City, lives in New Mexico with her husband, Bert Snyder, former sales director for Workman Publishing. The transfer of Bergholz's list to Berstein will take several months to complete, after which Bergholz will devote herself to gathering and placing her archive, which documents the publishing industry from the 1980s to today.
