Frances has spent over 40 years in publishing, first as an editor and publisher in London where she worked with many authors including with Lorrie Moore, Caryl Phillips, Edward Said, Deborah Levy, Salman Rushdie and John Pilger, and founded Vintage paperbacks. In 2000 she moved to New York where she relaunched and redefined Picador USA and published Frances Coady Books including Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. She is now an agent at Aragi representing a select list including Michael Cunningham, Sharon Olds, Claudia Rankine, Rebecca Solnit, Ocean Vuong and Gary Younge.