About Us
Peter and Amy Bernstein founded Bernstein Literary Agency in 2009. For over two decades, we have worked with over 100 brilliant authors around the globe and across a gamut of subjects to get their books published, and their stories told. We typically work on non-fiction projects, but we have helped bring many fiction books, children’s books, and the occasional cookbook to market. We work with authors in all stages of their careers, from experienced, award-winning, and bestselling ones to debut writers ready to take on the world.
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Selected Authors
Recent Books
- Target Tehran by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar September 26, 2023
- Into the Amazon by Larry Rohter May 30, 2023
- I Have No Enemies by Perry Link and Wu Dazhi May 10, 2023
- Murder in Manchuria by Scott D. Seligman April 7, 2023
- Into Siberia by Gregory Wallance April 1, 2023
- Victorious in Defeat by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine March 21, 2023
- Thinking Critically in College by Louis E. Newman March 7, 2023
- Deadly Quiet City by Murong Xuecun March 7, 2023
- The Disappeared by Sam Ferguson March 1, 2023
- Wilderness Tales edited by Diana Fuss February 28, 2023
- Victims of the Cultural Revolution by Wang Youqin February 23, 2023
- India is Broken by Ashoka Mody February 14, 2023
- The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn February 1, 2023
- When Washington Burned by Robert P. Watson February 1, 2023
- The Peking Express by James M. Zimmerman February 1, 2023
- Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy D. Popkin February 1, 2023
- The Retirement Challenge by Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris January 18, 2023
- The Oswalds by Paul R. Gregory November 15, 2022
- The Fractured Himalaya by Nirupama Rao November 1, 2022
- The Fight of Our Lives by Iuliia Mendel September 13, 2022
- Red Roulette by Desmond Shum September 6, 2022
- The Only Woman in the Room by Pnina Lahav September 6, 2022
- Common Stocks and Common Sense by Edgar Wachenheim III September 1, 2022
- China Coup by Roger Garside August 1, 2022
- Lost in the Cold War by John T. Downey, Thomas J. Christensen, and Jack Lee Downey August 1, 2022
- Defenders of the West by Raymond Ibrahim July 26, 2022
- Before the Big Bang by Laura Mersini-Houghton July 19, 2022
- My Boy Will Die of Sorrow by Efrén C. Olivares July 12, 2022
- Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden by Zhuqing Li June 21, 2022
- We Have Tired of Violence by Matt Easton June 7, 2022
- The Winning Ticket by Rob Sand May 1, 2022
- How Democracies Live by Stein Ringen May 1, 2022
- Indelible City by Louisa Lim April 19, 2022
- Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge by Christopher M. Smith March 15, 2022
- Searching for Peace by Ehud Olmert March 15, 2022
- The Snatch Racket by Carolyn Cox March 1, 2022
- Wuhan: Dokumentarroman by Liao Yiwu (published in German) February 1, 2022
- Just Help! by Sonia Sotomayor January 25, 2022
- The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin January 11, 2022
- The Secret Listener by Yuan-tsung Chen January 5, 2022
- When the Iron Bird Flies by Jianglin Li January 1, 2022
- Undoing the Liberal World Order by Leon Fink January 1, 2022
- Selected Poems by Ai Qing November 2, 2021
- A Thousand Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei November 2, 2021
- The Enablers by Frank Vogl November 1, 2021
- Champagne Charlie by Don and Petie Kladstrup November 1, 2021
- A Second Reckoning by Scott D. Seligman October 1, 2021
- Chicago’s Great Fire by Carl Smith September 14, 2021
- The Hidden Habits of Genius by Craig Wright September 7, 2021
- The Power of Trust by Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta July 6, 2021
- Engaging China edited by Anne F. Thurston July 1, 2021
- My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel May 21, 2021
- To Repair a Broken World by Dvora Hacohen May 11, 2021
- The Ever-Changing Past by James M. Banner, Jr. March 16, 2021
- The Kennedys in the World by Lawrence J. Haas March 1, 2021
- A Raid on the Red Sea by Amos Gilboa March 1, 2021
- What’s Luck Got to Do With It by Edward Kleinbard February 8, 2021
- George Washington’s Final Battle by Robert Watson February 1, 2021
- The World Turned Upside Down by Yang Jisheng January 19, 2021
- The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 by Scott D. Seligman December 1, 2020
- Ghost Flames by Charles Hanley August 25, 2020
- The Bitch by Pilar Quintana August 4, 2020
- America’s Jewish Women by Pamela Nadell May 5, 2020
- The War of Return by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf April 28, 2020
- The Planter of Modern Life by Stephen Heyman April 14, 2020
- The Journey of Liu Xiaobo by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman April 1, 2020
- Forbidden Memory by Tsering Woeser April 1, 2020
- Bullets and Opium by Liao Yiwu March 3, 2020
- Our People by Ruta Vanagaite and Efraim Zuroff March 1, 2020
- Drunk in China by Derek Sandhaus November 1, 2019
- Catch ’67 by Micah Goodman October 8, 2019
- Plaintiff in Chief by James D. Zirin September 24, 2019
- The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor September 17, 2019
- Just Ask! by Sonia Maria Sotomayor September 3, 2019
- Presidential Misconduct by James M. Banner, Jr. July 1, 2019
- The Making of a Justice by John Paul Stevens May 14, 2019
- Shadow Strike by Yaakov Katz May 7, 2019
- Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion by Simon May May 2, 2019
- How Safe Are We? by Janet Napolitano March 26, 2019
- The Power of Cute by Simon May March 19, 2019
- Neruda: The Biography of a Poet by Mark Eisner February 26, 2019
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin February 26, 2019
- Riding High by Ruth Zukerman October 2, 2018
- The New Authoritarianism by Salvatore Babones October 1, 2018
- Turning Pages by Sonia Maria Sotomayor September 4, 2018
- Sword and Scimitar by Raymond Ibrahim August 28, 2018
- The Great Flowing River by Chi Pang-yuan July 3, 2018
- Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif June 12, 2018
- The Third Degree by Scott D. Seligman May 1, 2018
- This Land is Our Land by Ken Ilgunas April 10, 2018
- Hearts and Minds by Nachman Shai April 1, 2018
- Blood Letters by Lian Xi March 20, 2018
- The Woman Who Fought an Empire by Gregory Wallance March 1, 2018
- In Defense of Israel by Moshe Arens February 6, 2018
- Why? Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes January 2, 2018
- Russia’s Dead End by Andrei Kovalev August 1, 2017
- The Dirty Guide to Wine by Alice Feiring June 13, 2017
- DC Confidential by David Schoenbrod March 7, 2017
- Trespassing Across America by Ken Ilgunas February 7, 2017