Ed Victor (born 1939 in the Bronx, New York City) is one of the world's leading Literary Agents.
Victor is the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, who ran a photographic equipment store. After graduating from Dartmouth College, in 1961 Victor attended University of Cambridge on a Marshall scholarship.
Victor married Englishwoman Micheline Samuels in 1963, and making their home in London the couple had two children. Victor worked for publishi...
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Ed Victor (born 1939 in the Bronx, New York City) is one of the world's leading Literary Agents.
Victor is the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, who ran a photographic equipment store. After graduating from Dartmouth College, in 1961 Victor attended University of Cambridge on a Marshall scholarship.
Victor married Englishwoman Micheline Samuels in 1963, and making their home in London the couple had two children. Victor worked for publishing house the Oborne Press, then part of Lord Beaverbrook's Express Newspapers group. He then worked on coffee table books for Weidenfeld and Nicolson. After approaching Lord Weidenfeld in the toilet, he was moved to general publishing looking after the works of Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov.
In 1970 his marriage ended in divorce, and wanting a new challenge Victor co-founded countercultural newspaper Ink with Oz founders Felix Dennis and Richard Neville. Conflict about what Ink should be lead to its failure, and Victor returned to the...
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