Subsidiary Rights

UK & Commonwealth Rights

Our clients’ books are handled in the UK and the British Commonwealth by the Abner Stein Agency.

Translation Rights

Translation rights for our clients’ books are handled by Baror International. 

Dramatic Rights

We place dramatic rights (film, television and live theatrical) in our clients' books either directly or in collaboration with allied agencies in Los Angeles and New York. Recently optioned and forthcoming projects include Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Elkins’s Imperial Reckoning to John Hart (Revolutionary Road); Anand Giridharadas’s True American to Kathryn Bigelow at Annapurna Pictures (The Hurt Locker); Glenn Stout’s The Young Woman and the Sea to Paramount Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me if You Can); Kirk Wallace Johnson’s The Feather Thief to Amazon Studios and his forthcoming The Fishermen and the Dragon to Paramount TV Studios and George Clooney’s Smokehouse Productions; Tom Sancton’s The Bettencourt Affair to Sony TV and Barry Josephson (Bones, Turn); and Heath Hardage Lee’s The League of Wives to Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine (Big Little Lies).

Please send all dramatic rights inquiries to operations@kwlit.com.

Click here to access our Fall 2022 dramatic rights catalog.