Lucinda Halpern

Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent, author, and founder of Lucinda Literary, a boutique agency specializing in fiction and nonfiction by leading experts and cultural voices.

With two decades of experience spanning New York publishing and media, Lucinda operates at the intersection of intellectual rigor, commercial viability, and long-term author partnership. She is known for working deeply with authors from the ground up—helping them sharpen their ideas, define their audience, and build books that perform in the marketplace.

Lucinda began her career in the Publicity Division of HarperCollins, contributing to campaigns for New York Times bestselling authors including Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt (Freakonomics). She later joined Scholastic’s Marketing Partnerships Division, where she developed custom publishing and content initiatives for Fortune 500 companies and global nonprofits—marketing experience that continues to inform her knowledge of building brands and businesses out of books.

She went on to represent authors at Fletcher & Company (now United Talent Agency), where she served as a marketing consultant to Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project).

Today, Lucinda represents New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and internationally bestselling authors writing in business, health, psychology, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction. Her clients include Dan Martell (Buy Back Your Time), novelist Jayne Allen (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted), Susan Peirce Thompson (Bright Line Eating), Chris Bailey (The Productivity Project, Hyperfocus), Cait Flanders (The Year of Less), Paul Jarvis (Company of One), and Jake Wood (Once a Warrior), among others. She also represents leading collaborators and ghostwriters such as Nicola Kraus (The Nanny Diaries), working at the highest echelons of trade publishing.

Lucinda is the author of Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author (Hay House / Penguin Random House, 2024), endorsed by Adam Grant as “the definitive guide to attracting an agent and laying the groundwork for a book worth publishing.” The book distills her 3-pronged framework for helping authors create groundbreaking books and long-lasting publishing careers.