Danielle wrote for the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and the Chicago Tribune Magazine before joining LGR in 2002. Her novel, Parked, published in 2020.

Books she rereads for love: I Capture the Castle, Happy All the Time, Jane Eyre, Devil in the White City, Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team.

Audiobooks that she’s recently listened to (in the car) on rainy days: When You Reach Me, Naked, The Secret Garden, Born a Crime.

Her clients tend to be oppositional but reasoned, serious but amused—preferring their rabbit holes deep.

Her taste is reflected in the journalism and narrative nonfiction she’s sold, e.g. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves and its natural follow-up Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art; a cultural history of our magnificent bodies, Vagina Obscura, and those same magnificent bodies under water, Why We Swim; a refusal to be grammatically cornered, Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark; a refusal to be artfully ignored, Broad Strokes…or bored, MCU: the Reign of Marvel Studios; and a bright finger in the dam of cyber insecurity, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends.

To offset the Victorian in her, she signs funny books, e.g. Skymaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From A Plane; or Minnesota-Book-of-the-Year nominee, The Annie Year, an ensemble novel that blurs heartland and heartburn; or How to Win Friends & Influence Fungi, by the smarty-pants behind Nerd Nite.

Of course, she has to eat, too… She represents an incredible stable of chefs, restaurateurs, and food/ag-thinkers—many of them IACP and Beard Award winners—including Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky’s New York Times bestselling Run Fast Eat Slow; Bryant Terry’s Black Food; Mark Bittman’s Bittman Bread; Sonoko Sakai’s Japanese Home Cooking; Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski’s State Bird Provisions; and Brandon Jew’s Mr. Jiu’s in Chinatown.

As if that’s not enough to sing about, some of her authors write AND illustrate. Like Avi Steinberg, Sophia Vincent-Guy, Ariella Elovic, Mary Catherine Starr, and Eugenia Viti.

And then there are the books just around the corner, from: Beth Rodden, Diana Helmuth, Will Cockrell, Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, Kirk Lombard, Katie Arnold, Mark Kurlansky, Irene Yoo, Georgia Freedman, Elyse Inamine, Laura Mayer, Leslie Pariseau.

Danielle is based in the agency’s California office.