ABOUT FSF

FREDRICA S. FRIEDMAN has spent her professional career in publishing, working with authors on “both sides of the table.” Prior to establishing her own literary management firm, Ms. Friedman was the Editorial Director, Associate Publisher and Vice President of Little, Brown & Co., a division of Time Warner. Among the best-selling and award-winning authors she brought to Little, Brown are James Patterson, Alan Dershowitz, Lionel Tiger, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Willie Morris, Richard Goodwin, Dan Rather, Lynda Obst, Amos Elon, Allan Folsom, Christopher Ogden, Linda Grey Sexton, Cleveland Amory, Victoria Glendinning, Albert Hadley, Larry King, George Stephanopoulos and Henry Kissinger. She is the recipient of the Matrix Award for Career Achievement in Book Publishing.

Ms. Friedman is also the Co-Founder of Women’s Campaign International, a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of women in the emerging democracies. WCI works in countries in Latin America, Central Europe and Africa, and is affiliated with the Fels Center of Government of the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women’s Forum, the International Women’s Forum, and the Agents’ Roundtable. She has served on numerous boards, now including the Board of Directors of Women’s Campaign International, American Red Cross in Greater New York, and the Board of Advisors of The Future of American Democracy Foundation at Yale University. Ms. Friedman holds a B.A. degree from Vassar College, and an M.A. degree from Columbia University.