Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just who is Andrew Wylie and why is he stirring up so much bile in the publishing industry? "He's probably the most dishonest agent in the business," claims Scott Meredith, who is Norman Mailer's agent. "Wylie is to the literary business what Roy Cohn was to the legal business," snipes superagent Morton Janklow. "A sociopath," says Daphne Merkin, associate publisher at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
Publishing has long since lost the gentlemanly style it had in the days when Andrew's father, the late Craig Wylie, was a senior editor for Houghton Mifflin. The young Wylie's transgression is that he disobeys the few rules that are left. He rustles writers from other agents, which he admits, noting, "This is not Texas ranching; these are not cattle with a brand." He has been accused of representing authors before they know it. "That's a lie," he says. And when it comes to negotiating, he's slippery: "Sometimes I make it up as I go along...
However Wylie does it, his clients love the results. "The hell with publishers," says Robert K. Massie, president of the Authors Guild and a Wylie client. "Andrew isn't going to play along." While some agents swing bigger deals, Wylie has won relatively large advances for the literary writers he represents, including more than $250,000 for two books by the young novelist David Leavitt...
...Since Andrew Heiskell announced more than three years ago that he would be stepping down from the Corporation, students and faculty had called on the self-perpetuating body to name a woman or minority as his replacement, a decision they said would bring the 339-year-old body much-needed new perspective...
...Washington attorney Judith Richards Hope is named the first woman member of the Harvard Corporation--the University's 339 year-old chief governing body. She replaces Andrew J. Heiskell, the former head of Time...