Adam Eaglin
Vice President and Agent

A native of North Carolina, Adam Eaglin graduated from Duke University, majoring in English literature and creative writing, and received his MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he studied with thesis advisor Louise Glück. While in graduate school, he assisted The Atlantic’s poetry editor, and later began his career in publishing with internships at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and The Paris Review and was an editorial assistant at Basic Books. He then transitioned to agenting at the Wylie Agency, starting as an assistant and working his way up to agent. In 2012, he moved to The Cheney Agency as a full-time agent, where he has continued to build his client list, and in 2021, became Vice President, overseeing the agency’s growing film & TV rights division. Adam primarily focuses on non-fiction, with an emphasis on underrepresented voices and perspectives; narrative-driven and investigative journalism; and path-breaking work in the fields of history, politics, arts & culture, politics, science, and technology. He also represents a select list of fiction. His clients include New York Times best-selling authors and have been winners of and finalists for many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, the Lukas Prize for Excellence in Nonfiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence (in both Fiction and Non-Fiction), the National Jewish Book Award, and the NYPL Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.