I was surfing the web and came across a brief bio about my agent, Sterling Lord. I've copied it below. He is attending the Paris Writer's Retreat as a featured guest and speaker. Check it out. I think you'll see why he is considered a legend in literary circles. I still haven't figured out why he picked me out to be one of clients...but I'm not complaining.
"MR. STERLING LORD is a legend. He is chairman of the prominent NY literary agency Sterling Lord Literistic. Among the great authors he represented: Jack Kerouac ( On the Road, 1957), Ken Kesey, Howard Fast, Gloria Naylor, Jimmy Breslin, Nick Pileggi, David Wise, Dick Francis, Terry Southern, Walter Lord, and Stan and Jan Berernstein, authors of the largest selling children's books in the world. Lord began his career as a magazine editor in and publisher in Europe and the United States. Lord was one of the first agents to sell major autobiographical books as films (Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) and Fear Strikes Out) (1957). He was also one of the first agents to break the book publishing tradition of single submission of materials, and move into multiple submissions and auctions. In the 1960's, with the demise of many national magazines (Look, Life, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, etc.), Lord set up his own syndicate of Sunday newspaper magazines and also syndicated well-known daily newspaper columnists, including Jimmy Breslin and Dick Schaap). His syndication of Jimmy Breslin broke all newspaper traditions regarding payments, exclusivity, and use of his material in subscriber newspapers. When Sports Illustrated named the 100 best sports books of all time in its December 15, 2002 issue, 16 of them were represented by Sterling Lord."
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