The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book

It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.