Sentences with phrase «as literary executor»

For 10 years, Max Allan Collins has skillfully and loyally acted as literary executor for pulp mystery master Mickey Spillane, who left behind a number of unfinished manuscripts after his death in 2006.

Not exact matches

As Walter Hooper, Lewis's literary executor, rightly observes, «In Lewis the natural and the supernatural seemed to be one, to flow one into the other.

Ellison passed away in 1994, but had been working on a second novel for forty years, a portion of which was released by his literary executor John Callahan as Juneteenth in 1999.

The two key sources, however, are unpublished documents he obtained from Gloria Karefa - Smart, Baldwin's sister and literary executor: a June 1979 letter from the writer to his agent, Jay Acton, and 30 pages of notes for a novel that Baldwin would never write, to chronicle the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. «I want these three lives to bang against and reveal each other, as in truth they did,» Baldwin explains, «and use their dreadful journey as a means of instructing people whom they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.»

It was found as a handwritten text in his notebook after he died in November 2014 and transcribed by his literary executor, Mary Jo Salter.

Whether as translator of Dante, bibliographer of Michelangelo, literary executor of Ruskin, founder and co-editor of The Nation magazine or editor of authors as remote from one another as John Donne and Thomas Carlyle, Charles Eliot Norton had both style and class.

Many authors have named a literary executor, just as intellectuals or artists have named a similar special executor to safe - guard and oversee their works.