Jonah Straus founded Straus Literary, a boutique agency in San Francisco with an office in New York, in 2007. He specializes in literary fiction, often with an international or multicultural outlook, as well as journalism, history, narrative, and the culinary arts. Fiction clients include Achy Obejas (Days of Awe, Ballantine), Whiting Award-winner John Keene (Counternarratives, New Directions), David Hollander (L.I.E. Ballantine), Saramago Prize-winner Adriana Lisboa (Crow-Blue, Bloomsbury), and Clark Blaise (Lunar Attractions, Doubleday). Nonfiction writers include Drauzio Varella (Lockdown, Simon & Schuster), Sarah DiGregorio (Early, HarperCollins, forthcoming), Edward McClelland (Nothin But Blue Skies, Bloomsbury) and Gordon Weiss (The Cage, Random House).
