About Cullen
Cullen Stanley began her career in the New York office of Italy’s Arnoldo Mondadori Editore where she met and worked for Maria B. Campbell. When Campbell launched her eponymous scouting agency Maria B. Campbell Associates in 1987, Cullen joined as the senior scout advising major publishing houses across Europe and Asia, as well as Amblin Entertainment in Hollywood. Four years later Cullen joined Janklow & Nesbit Associates as a foreign rights agent. In 1998 she was named Director of the Rights Department, overseeing a team of three agents. She was made a Managing Director of the company in 2009 and was named Partner in 2015. Cullen left Janklow & Nesbit Associates to form her own agency, Cullen Stanley International, in January 2017.
Cullen Stanley has represented many authors in the US and international markets. Among the best-known names are bestsellers Michael Crichton, Atul Gawande, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Hughes, Richard Preston, Richard Sennett, Danielle Steel, Kristin von Kreisler, and Fareed Zakaria, as well as literary luminaries Andrew Sean Greer, Shirley Hazzard, and Jayne Anne Phillips.
Cullen is a fifth generation Texan, born in San Antonio. She graduated from Smith College with a double degree in Italian Literature and Art History. She speaks and reads Italian, French and Spanish. In her free time, Cullen enjoys tennis and music.
Cullen Stanley represents Richard Sennett's Building and Dwelling (FSG), Rao Pingru's Our Story (Pantheon), Kristin von Kreisler's A Healing Justice (Kensington), forthcoming in 2018, among others. She enjoys compelling narrative nonfiction, historical memoir, biography, mind-body-spirit, and books on art and design. In fiction, she likes novels with strong plot lines, inspirational stories and memorable characters.
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