Curtis Brown (agency)

Curtis Brown
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Literary and Talent Agency
Founded1899; 126 years ago (1899)
Headquarters locationLondon, UK
Key peopleJonny Geller (CEO The Curtis Brown Group), Sarah Spear (Director), Nick Marston (Director), Simon Flamank (CFO), Raneet Ahuja (COO)
Official websitehttps://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/

Curtis Brown is a literary and talent agency based in London, UK. One of the oldest literary agencies in Europe, it was founded by Albert Curtis Brown in 1899. It is part of The Curtis Brown Group of companies.[1]

History

Albert Curtis Brown was an American journalist who was the London correspondent for The New York Press. He also ran a press syndication agency. Because of his extensive contacts in both the UK and America, he fell into representing authors who were looking for publishing opportunities on the two continents.

The first deal he transacted was selling serial rights in John Oliver Hobbes’s The Vineyard. The literary agency element of Brown’s business was accommodated alongside his press agency in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. In 1914, Curtis Brown opened its first international office in New York; subsequently, offices were opened in Paris, Berlin, Milan and Copenhagen. Brown believed in the exchange of literature between countries as a point of principle to foster international understanding. The company retains a translation rights department to this day.

During this period, Brown carried out agency business on behalf of a large number of well-known writers such as Kenneth Grahame, A. A. Milne and D. H. Lawrence. It also worked on behalf of prominent figures of the day including Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

Curtis Brown wrote an autobiography called Contacts – published by Cassell in 1935. He ran the agency until 1935 when he was succeeded by his son Spencer Curtis Brown. Spencer ran the agency until his retirement in 1968 when he sold it to an investment company.

The agency was instrumental in establishing the reputations of several British and American writers, including John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, C. P. Snow, Angus Wilson, Lawrence Durrell, Gerald Durrell, Gerald Butler,[2] Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Bowen and Isaiah Berlin.

In 1953 Spencer Curtis Brown Black head hunted Kitty Black and she became chief play reader at Curtis Brown. She played golf and used her connections to find clients that included Somerset Maugham and Samuel Beckett.[3] She was involved with the noted production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1956. She notably told John Osborne to "think again" about his play Look Back in Anger (1956) that would later transform British theatre.[4]

The agency was bought back by its management team in 1982.

In 1995, Jonathan Lloyd was recruited from the publishers HarperCollins to become managing director and two years later Nick Marston joined from rival agents AP Watt to begin the new film, theatre and television department.

A further buy-out in 2001-2002 resulted in the present ownership of the agency by its management.[citation needed]

Recent history

Curtis Brown underwent a management buyout in 2002 then senior.

In 2008, Curtis Brown and ICM (International Creative Management) signed a deal for Curtis Brown to represent ICM’s clients in the UK and across the world.[5]

In addition to its books, actors, presenters, theatre and television departments, the company has a film production arm launched in 2008, Cuba Pictures.

In May 2012, the company restructured its management team with Jonathan Lloyd becoming Chairman and with Ben Hall and Jonny Geller becoming joint Chief Executives.[6] Curtis Brown also runs a creative writing school, Curtis Brown Creative.[7]

In March 2013, Curtis Brown acquired a major stake in leading literary agency Conville and Walsh, finally acquiring the company in early 2015.[8][9][10]

In June 2022, United Talent Agency (UTA) acquired The Curtis Brown Group.[11]

Clients

Novelists and non-fiction writers

Playwrights

Screenwriters

TV presenters

Actors and actresses

Former personnel

The Curtis Brown Prize

The Curtis Brown Prize was established in 2006 in memory of agent Giles Gordon (1940-2003).[1] Worth £1,500, it is awarded annually for the best writer of prose fiction on the University of East Anglia MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) course, based on the material submitted by students for their MA assessment. The winner is chosen by a panel of Curtis Brown agents from a shortlist comprising all students in the year who achieve an MA with distinction.[15] The inaugural award was made to Joe Dunthorne in 2006 for his novel Submarine. Other recipients are: Tamara Britten (2007), Daniel Timms (2008), Lauren Owen (2009), Gillian Daly (2010), Chelsey Flood (2011), Charlotte Stretch (2012).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Curtis Brown Award - Annual award established in memory of Giles Gordon", University of East Anglia.
  2. ^ "Hollywood", The Film Daily March 4th 1948 p2
  3. ^ "Black, Dorothy [Kitty] (1914–2006), theatrical agent and translator | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97548
  4. ^ a b c d Shorter, Eric (13 February 2007). "Obituary: Kitty Black". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  5. ^ Joel Rickett (29 February 2008). "Curtis Brown/ICM deal back on". The Bookseller. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  6. ^ "'Next generation' steps up at Curtis Brown". The Bookseller. 30 May 2012.
  7. ^ "Curtis Brown Creative". www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk.
  8. ^ "Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh join Forces". The Bookseller. 13 February 2013.
  9. ^ "Curtis Brown Acquires 100% Conville And Walsh". BookTrade.info. 11 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  10. ^ "Curtis Brown completes Conville & Walsh buy". LondonBookFair.co.uk. 10 March 2015.[permanent dead link‍]
  11. ^ Kit, Borys (13 June 2022). "UTA Acquiring UK Literary and Talent Agency Curtis Brown Group". The Hollywood Reporter.
  12. ^ "Sara Vickers", Curtis Brown. Retrieved 2 January 2019
  13. ^ McCormick, Anne H., "Remembering Naomi Burton Stone: A View from Manhattan", The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. Retrieved 5 September 2020
  14. ^ David Hughes, Obituary: "Giles Gordon", The Independent, 17 November 2003. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
  15. ^ Prizes - The Curtis Brown Prize, University of East Anglia.

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