literary agent

1. 1.

   an agent who represents an author in dealings with publishers

   Broaderagent

Questions about literary agent

What does literary agent mean?

literary agent means "an agent who represents an author in dealings with publishers".

Is literary agent a common word?

literary agent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.