Andrew Wylie (literary agent)
Andrew Wylie | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
| Other names | The Jackal |
| Occupation | Literary agent |
| Known for | Founder of The Wylie Agency |
| Website | www |
Andrew Wylie (born 1947), known as The Jackal, is an American literary agent.
Early life
Wylie is the son of Craig Wylie (1908–1976), one-time editor-in-chief at Houghton Mifflin, and Angela (1915–1989), daughter of the landscape architect and artist Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr, of Oatlands, New York[1][2][3][4] (son of judge Robert Ludlow Fowler, author of many legal texts).[5][6][7][8] His grandfather, Yale-educated lawyer Horace Wylie was a son of the federal judge Andrew Wylie and grandson of Rev. Andrew Wylie, first President of Indiana University. Horace caused a scandal when he and the younger poet and novelist Elinor Hichborn left their respective families to live together.[9]
Wylie grew up in
Family
In 1969, Wylie married his first wife, Christina, whom he had met in college. They had a son together, Nikolas. They got divorced c.1974. In 1980 he remarried. Larry Clark was his best man. He has two additional children.[11]
Poet
In 1972, Wylie published a short collection of poetry, Yellow Flowers. Many of the verses cited in public sources are sexually explicit in nature. In a 2007 interview, fellow agent Ira Silverberg suggested that Wylie has since attempted to acquire the remaining copies of the collection.[12] Wylie himself denied this allegation, describing Yellow Flowers as a "youthful indiscretion".[13]
Literary agent
Wylie founded the literary agency named after himself in New York in 1980 with a $10,000 loan from his mother.[11] He opened a second office in London in 1996.[10] It now represents more than 1,300 clients, approximately 10% of which are literary estates.[11]
Wylie's clients[14] include:
- Martin Amis
- Alessandro Baricco
- John Barth
- The Donald Barthelme Estate
- The Roberto Bolaño Estate
- The Jorge Luis Borges Estate
- The Guillermo Cabrera Infante Estate
- The Italo Calvino Estate
- The Albert Camus Estate
- The Raymond Carver Estate
- The John Cheever Estate
- The Philip K. Dick Trust
- The Yasunari Kawabata Estate
- Karl Ove Knausgård
- Milan Kundera
- The Elmore Leonard Estate
- The Arthur Miller Estate
- The Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation
- New York Review Books
- The Patrick O'Brian Estate
- Kenzaburo Oe
- Sally Rooney
- The Philip Roth Estate
- Salman Rushdie[15][16]
- The José Saramago Estate
- The W. G. Sebald Estate
- Art Spiegelman
- The Hunter S. Thompson Estate
- The Tomasi di Lampedusa Estate
- The John H. Updike Literary Trust
- The Kurt Vonnegut Estate
- Mo Yan
- The Evelyn Waugh Estate
- The Andy Warhol Foundation
- The C. V. Wedgwood Estate
- Bob Dylan[11]
- Henry Kissinger[11]
Throughout his career as a literary agent, Wylie has attracted attention for poaching clients from other agents,[5] and has been nicknamed "The Jackal" for his business tactics.[17] He has been criticized by other agents and publishers for harming the culture of the book industry.[11] In 1995 Martin Amis left his agent of 22 years, Pat Kavanagh, for Wylie, who was reported to have secured an advance of £500,000 for Amis's novel The Information.[10]
In July 2010, Wylie launched a new business,
References
- ^ "[Robert L. Fowler Jr.'s 'Oatlands' Estate, Bedford, NY]". digitalcollections.smu.edu.
- ^ "TROTH ANNOUNCED OF ANGELA FOWLER; Katonah, N.-Y., Girl Affianced to Craig Wylie, a Master at St. Paul's School TWO PROSPECTIVE BRIDES OF THE SUMMER". The New York Times. May 2, 1938.
- ^ "Robert Ludlow Fowler Jr. | The Cultural Landscape Foundation". www.tclf.org.
- ^ "ROBERT FOWLER JR., LANDSCAPE PLANNER". The New York Times. September 4, 1973.
- ^ a b Brockes, Emma (November 24, 2003). "Agent provocateur". The Guardian. London. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ Silver of the Americas, 1600-2000: American Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jeannine J. Falino, Gerald W. R. Ward, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2008, p. 15
- ^ Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1976, p. 137.
- ^ "BRIDAL IN BEDFORD FOR MISS FOWLER; Kin of Late Prominent Jurist Wed to Craig Wylie, Master at St. Paul's, Concord, N. H. Seven Bridesmaids Serve Member of Colony Club". The New York Times. July 3, 1938.
- ^ "Craig Wylie" by Henry A. Laughlin in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Vol. 88, 1976 pp. 135–140
- ^ a b c Lambert, Craig (July 2010). "Fifteen Percent of Immortality". Harvard Magazine. Cambridge. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Blasdel, Alex (November 9, 2023). "Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 21, 2023. Retrieved November 23, 2023.
- ^ Schambelan, Elizabeth (April 2007). "He is Curious (Yellow)". Bookforum. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
- ^ Grove, Lloyd (December 14, 2007). "World According to... Andrew Wylie", Portfolio.com. Retrieved August 20, 2010. Archived April 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Client List". The Wylie Agency. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
- ^ Thompson, Carolyn; Italie, Hillel (August 14, 2022). "Agent: Rushdie off ventilator and talking, day after attack". AP News.
- ^ Vargas, Ramon Antonio; Agencies (August 13, 2022). "Salman Rushdie is off ventilator and able to talk, agent says". The Guardian. Retrieved August 13, 2022.
- ^ Gordon, Ken (February 14, 2013). "Sympathy for the Jackal: Making Peace With Publishing's Most Infamous Agent". The Atlantic.
- ^ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (October 30, 2014). "Top literary agent Andrew Wylie calls Amazon 'Isis-like distribution channel'". The Guardian.
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