I am Sarah Funke Butler, a literary agent with a specialty in archives and archival material, especially relating to 20th-century literature, the arts, and feminism. It’s my dream job.

My work with literary and cultural archives allows me to foster the highest, best, and broadest use of gestational work by writers I admire, and to help researchers and public audiences view their work in crucial and complex historical and biographical contexts. 

In a similar vein, my management of private collections - from acquisition recommendations, to inventory and website oversight, to arranging exhibition loans and administering scholarly access – ensures that elite collectors are able to properly house and more widely share compelling material.

Finally, I find myself moved, delighted, and inspired by the original manuscripts I am privileged to represent for publication. There is no greater joy than helping these books find the audiences they deserve.

I graduated from Harvard (where I was a resident of Adams House, once home to William Burroughs, Randolph Hearst, and Seamus Heaney) with a concentration in English & American Literature & Language, specializing in 20th-century American literature. I also hold a Masters in Library Science with a specialty in Rare Books and Archives. I am a recent convert to the Oxford comma.