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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's agent just loves those royalty statements from book publishers. But he also exploits a growing variety of other outlets for his client. Given a hot property and an Air Travel card, he will busy himself selling subsidiary rights to the movies, TV, paperback houses, foreign publishers and serialization syndicates-to say nothing of arranging for new assignments from publishers and setting up lecture tours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Agents: Writing With a $ Sign | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...Mother. Whatever else he does, though, the agent can rarely avoid for long his original function: the care and occasionally the feeding of his authors, who, like infant children, are in constant need of mothering. Few authors can have that need fulfilled as thoroughly as Novelist Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?), whose agent really is his mother, Ad Schulberg, a 37-year veteran of the business. But few agents serve as a mother substitute as successfully as Candida Donadio, an exceedingly shy woman who abhors publicity and rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Agents: Writing With a $ Sign | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Look in the Eyes. Although Agent Donadio has a sharp eye out for potential profits, she has an even keener eye for a writer's prose. "Language means the most to me," she says. "The way words are put together. I read selfishly. I want to see either a new insight or some kind of confirmation of what you already know. If I'm not sure, I look at a writer's eyes. They tell me a great deal." Without the need for optic examination, she took on California Writer Robert Stone, whose excellent first novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Agents: Writing With a $ Sign | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...Auctioneer. Manhattan's Scott Meredith, 43, perhaps the nation's most successful literary agent, approaches his work in a considerably colder spirit. Some years ago, the trade set up the Society of Authors' Representatives, a gentlemanly association of agents who valiantly try to regulate their business with a code of ethics. He is its most important nonmember. He advertises the services of his 30-man staff, and he charges a fee for reading manuscripts-two functions frowned upon by the S.A.R. Meredith can afford the frowns. His stable includes Norman Mailer, Gerald Green, Ellery Queen, Mickey Spillane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Agents: Writing With a $ Sign | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Anything Goes. Between the Donadios and the Merediths, the thriving agency business is rich with specialists who represent, in varying degrees, some combination or permutation of the two. Irving Lazar is a Hollywood agent who concentrates almost exclusively on sales to film companies. Attorney Paul Gitlin represents Harold Robbins, among others, as both lawyer and agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Agents: Writing With a $ Sign | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

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