Andrew Wylie is the most powerful literary agent in the world. He believes in the physical charm of the classic book.
His father was chief editor at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, his uncle, an important banker. Andrew Wylie loved both worlds, sought a common denominator and decided to become a literary agent, though he had what he knew of "literary" literary agents, please do not actually.
"They sat in small, dusty office with green lilies wilting in the window," recalls the 62-year-old on his first impressions. "The whole thing was devastating and it was felt that the best authors were represented at the worst and the worst best. To enjoy my life, can read, I had good books. But how do you make of it a business, when people who write well are not paid well? Yes, the best writers earn their money in time, and so is the long term by all of Shakespeare's most valuable author. But the publishing business is knitted, as if the most valuable author Danielle Steel, which has sold worldwide with their romance novels since 1977 530 million books. "
