Since 1974,
Barbara Bova Literary Agency (BBLA) has represented award-winning authors and built successful publishing careers for more than five decades. Our clients include writers whose books have been adapted into major motion pictures reflecting our commitment to representing stories with lasting impact.
As a boutique agency, we provide personalized representation while negotiating publishing contracts, managing subsidiary rights, and developing long-term career strategies.
Through our longstanding relationships with respected foreign co-agents, we actively market translation rights worldwide, helping our authors reach readers across the globe.
Barbara Bova our founder and first literary agent of BBLA, who passed away in 2009, was also a talented author and columnist.
An aide to a United States Senator, a school teacher, a social worker, an artist, a successful New York model, a philanthropist, an advocate for social and environmental issues, she was also mother of three and a loving grandmother.
Her mission to promote the best and most talented professional writers of fiction and nonfiction, continues...
Our Founders
Photo Credit: Claire L. Evans
Ben Bova our president since 2009, passed away in 2020.
He was 88 years old.
Dr. Bova was the author of more than 200 works of science fact and fiction, including short stories, essays, newspaper articles, non-fiction works and novels. He was the six-time winner of the prestigious Hugo Award, the editor of Analog Magazine, and the editorial director of Omni Magazine. He was president of the National Space Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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