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Harvey Sacks

Emanuel Schegloff, one of Sacks's close collaborators, colleagues and co-authors, became his literary executor.

Otto Nathan

Dr. Nathan was a close friend of Albert Einstein for many years and was designated by Einstein as co-trustee of his literary estate with Helen Dukas.

Thank You, Fog

The book contains poems written mostly in 1972 and 1973; after Auden's death in September 1973 it was prepared for publication by his literary executor Edward Mendelson, who also included an "antimasque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses", written in 1973 by Auden and Chester Kallman as an interpolation in a planned production of James Shirley's masque Cupid and Death (1653); the antimasque was commissioned by the composer John Gardner.


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Arthur M. Dula

Art Dula is literary executor for the major science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein.

Beerbohm

Elisabeth Jungmann, Lady Beerbohm (1894–1958), interpreter and the secretary, literary executor

Christopher Hibbert

He was married to Susan Piggford with three children, his daughter and literary executor Kate Hibbert, television writer James Hibbert and music journalist Tom Hibbert.

Douglas Kellner

Previously, Kellner served as the literary executor of the famed documentary film maker Emile de Antonio and is presently overseeing the publication of six volumes of the collected papers of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse.

Edith Andreae

She was literary executor and editor of the works of her brother Walther Rathenau.

G. Evelyn Hutchinson

He served as the literary executor for the works of Rebecca West.

Henry Roth

In 2005, ten years after Roth’s death, the first full biography of his life, the prize-winning Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, by literary scholar Steven G. Kellman, was published, followed in 2006 by Henry Roth’s centenary, which was marked by a literary tribute at the New York Public Library, sponsored by CCNY and organized by Lawrence I. Fox, Roth’s literary executor.

Hunter S. Thompson bibliography

Douglas Brinkley, Thompson's literary executor, told an interviewer that many of them are quite good, and that a collection is in the works.

John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield

But he is remembered chiefly as the close friend and literary executor of Edward Gibbon (author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), whose Memoirs and other miscellaneous works he subsequently edited and published.

Salomon's House

the original 1627 edition published by Bacon's literary executor William Rawley has "King Solamona" and "Salomon's House", while the 1658 and 1670 editions (long after Bacon's death) have "King Salomona" and "Solomon's House."

The Diary of Anaïs Nin

This is because in 1986, Rupert Pole, Anaïs Nin's widower and literary executor, began to publish what are now termed the "unexpurgated" versions of the diary.

Thomas Forbes Kelsall

T. F. Kelsall was the literary executor and friend of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and edited some of his published work, including the notable Death's Jest Book: or, The Fool's Tragedy, in 1850.

Ursule Molinaro

On several of her translations, she collaborated with her close friend, the writer Bruce Benderson, who now serves as her literary executor.

Winnie Davin

She was the wife of the writer and publisher Dan Davin and a close friend and later literary executor of Joyce Cary.