Roger Freet, who held several positions at HarperCollins before becoming an agent, died March 18 from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 56.
Freet joined Folio Literary Management as a VP in 2020 after a five-year stint with Foundry Literary + Media. Prior to moving into the agenting world, Freet was the associate director of marketing and publicity at HarperOne from 1999 to 2004 before being named executive editor of the imprint. A graduate of the Princeton Theological Seminary, Freet also attended the Stanford University Professional Publishing Course and began his publishing career in 1997 as an intern in the publicity department at Princeton University Press.
Among the authors he worked with over the course of his career were James Martin, Bart Ehrman, Jennifer Harvey, Paul Stanley, Robert Jones, Kate Hennessy, Candida Moss and Peter Flint. “His generous spirit and dogged pursuit of wisdom was reflected in the many authors and books he worked with and on,” said Mark Tauber who worked with Freet at HarperOne and who now runs The Watermark Agency.
He is survived by his daughter Julia, his son Jared, and wife Shelly.
