Amanda Urban

Amanda "Binky" Urban is an American literary agent and partner^[2] at ICM Partners.^[1]

Amanda "Binky" Urban
Urban in 2011
Born	1946 or 1947 (age 78–79)[1]
Alma mater	Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Occupation	Literary Agent
Spouse	Ken Auletta[1]
Awards	2010 Maxwell E. Perkins Award

Urban started at ICM as a literary agent,^[3] worked as Co-Director of the ICM Literary Department in New York, and had been Managing Director of ICM Books in London from 2002 to 2008.^[4] Before ICM, she was General Manager of New York Magazine^[5] and The Village Voice, and Editorial Manager of Esquire Magazine.^[6]

In December 2010, the Center for Fiction awarded Amanda Urban the Maxwell E. Perkins Award in recognition of her work and contribution to the field of fiction writing.^[7][8] She was the first book agent selected to receive the award.^[9]

Urban attended Kent Place School^[10] and graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts as an English major in 1968.^[11]

She has represented dozens of authors, among them Jennifer Egan, Bret Easton Ellis, Nora Ephron, and Cormac McCarthy.^{[12][13][4][14][11]}