About Rachel
A graduate of Brown University, Rachel Sussman worked as an editor at Scribner and as an agent with Zachary Shuster Harmsworth before co-founding Chalberg & Sussman. She represents a wide range of nonfiction—narrative, memoir, psychology, history, lifestyle, and pop culture—and a select list of literary fiction.
Rachel’s clients run the gamut from self-proclaimed mediocre mother Karen Alpert, author of the New York Times bestseller I Heart My Little A-Holes, and DIY experts Sherry and John Petersik, authors of the New York Times bestseller Young House Love, to journalists Mary Papenfuss, author of American Huckster, and Linda Hervieux, author of Forgotten: The Untold Story of the Only African-American Combat Unit at D-Day.
Rachel’s diverse list includes memoirists Matt Logelin, author of the New York Times bestseller Two Kisses for Maddy; Stephanie Wittels Wachs, author of Everything is Horrible and Wonderful; and Ginger Sprouse, author of the forthcoming Kinda Like Grace; illustrators Beau and Bryan Abbott, authors of the forthcoming Baseball Card Vandals, and Emma Lee, author of Hidden Heartbreak; and academics writing for a trade audience, including psychology professor Hal Herzog, author of Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight about Animals, and Deborah Cohen, MD, author of A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic.
