[6] In December 2010, the Center for Fiction awarded Amanda Urban the Maxwell E. Perkins Award in recognition of her work and contribution to the field of fiction writing.

[7][8] She was the first book agent selected to receive the award.

[9] Urban attended Kent Place School[10] and graduated from Wheaton College in Massachusetts as an English major in 1968.

[11] She has represented dozens of authors, among them Jennifer Egan, Bret Easton Ellis, Nora Ephron, and Cormac McCarthy.

[12][13][4][14][11] This article about an American businessperson born in the 1940s is a stub.