Sentences with phrase «literary executor»
A literary executor is someone appointed by an author to handle their literary works, rights, and affairs after their death. They ensure that the author's wishes regarding their writings, copyrights, and publication are respected and carried out. Full definition
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.
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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.
Ironically, Smith based his own theory of ethics on Hume's ideas, and they became close friends, with Hume naming Smith to be his literary executor.
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.
After Thompson's death, Philip became Dunston's literary executor, and had all the poems from his Catholic period — which had not appeared during his life - printed under the title, Poems, 1950 - 1974.
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.
A limp - to - wilted film version of Duras» 16 - year - long love affair with a young man who became her secretary and literary executor.
Everett's old cohort Colin Firth, as his loyal friend Reggie Turner, and Edwin Thomas as his literary executor Robbie Ross, are admittedly way too far apart in age to play these exact contemporaries: Firth's mainly here to be a sellable name, not a convincing 28 - year - old, but such is life.
As a literary executor, I wanted update novels written in the 1950s as eBooks.
For those like myself who know little about eBooks, Mr Baker takes all the strain out of the process Robert Chesshyre, journalist, writer and literary executor
We talked about what the qualifications work for choosing a literary executor.
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.
This American artist was perhaps best known for his book cover illustrations, but Park painted landscapes and cityscapes and was the literary executor of the estate of Pulitzer - prize winning poet James Schuyler.
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.