Andrew Wylie
Andrew Wylie (born November 4, 1947 in New York City ) is an American literary agent .
Life
Wylie's father, Craig Wylie, worked for Houghton Mifflin as an editor-in-chief . His mother was of upper class origin. Andrew Wylie studied Romance studies at Harvard, was part of Andy Warhol's circle in New York for a while and worked at times as a taxi driver.
In 1972 Wylie published the narrow volume of poetry Yellow Flowers , with some sexually explicit poetry ("sexually explicit poetry"), which he dismissed in an interview in 2007 as "youthful indiscretions".
In 1980 he founded his agency Wylie ( The Wylie Agency ) in New York . In 1986 he joined forces with the London agency Aitken & Stone . In 1996 this connection was broken again and Wylie opened his own agency in London. The agency employs around 40 people.
Wylie was known several times for very high advances, which he negotiated for his authors. He is known in the industry by the nickname "The Jackal".
Wylie and his agency represent over 800 writers, photographers, politicians, including world-famous such as Al Gore , Saul Bellow , Jorge Luis Borges , Claudio Magris , Norman Mailer , Salman Rushdie , Philip Roth , WG Sebald and the estates of Vladimir Nabokov , Susan Sontag , John Updike , Hunter S. Thompson, and Kurt Vonnegut .
Wylie has been married for the second time since 1980, he has two daughters and a son from his first marriage.
Web links
- Homepage (English) with a list of represented writers
- How greedy does a writer have to be, Mister Wylie? , Felicitas von Lovenberg in conversation with Wylie in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , on Sept. 5, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portfolio.com from Dec. 14, 2007 ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Andrew Wylie (...) is one of the most powerful men in the literary business", in: (Interview with Johanna Adorján ): We never talk about money. An interview with literary agent Andrew Wylie about huge advances, aggressive business practices, sea salt and cocaine in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on October 9, 2011, page 58
- ↑ Thomas Bärnthaler, Gabriela Herpell: "It's our job to be aggressive". In: sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de. Magazin Verlagsgesellschaft Süddeutsche Zeitung mbH, June 27, 2019, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wylie, Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American literary agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |