Word: donadio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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-22), Thomas Pynchon (V.), and Bruce Jay Friedman (A Mother's Kisses) worship her for her combination of good business sense and warm understanding of their difficulties. The trade calls...
Though most agents try to avoid taking on untried writers, Miss Donadio makes a specialty of them. Says Knopf Vice President Robert Gottlieb: "Candida will send a story to a small literary magazine and not take out a cent of commission from the teeny check that comes back-and she'll do it for years...
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...
...When something is wrong in a story," Miss Donadio says, "and the writer doesn't see it or doesn't know it-there is something in the writer's life he doesn't understand. A young writer will call me and say how depressed he is and how dark and awful life is. Well, life isn't dark and awful, and I'll break my back showing them that...