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In 1928, they incorporated the firm, and by the early 1930s, it was a reputable and successful literary agency. [3] In 1963, McIntosh & Otis merged with New-York based agency Constance Smith Associates. Patricia Schartle Myrer, who was a partner at Constance Smith Associates, became President of McIntosh & Otis. [4]
She went to work for agent Harold Ober in 1963, then joined the William Morris Agency literary department in 1967, where she became co-director before establishing her own agency in 1974. [2] While at William Morris, Wallace convinced Erich Segal, then known mainly as a Harvard classics professor, to write a novel based on a screenplay he had ...
In 1933, Stein published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, a memoir of her life in Paris and driving an ambulance during World War I, written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner. The book was a bestseller and Stein went from relative obscurity to become a well known literary figure. [3]
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, [1] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.
The agency's original Beverly Hills office was located on the old MCA Inc. campus built in 1932 [5] where conference rooms honor Jules Stein and Lew Wasserman, who occupied the space. In 2018 the agency moved to the 82,000-square-foot Wilshire LaPeer building on Wilshire Blvd, where ICM was once headquartered. [6]
Gary Heidt at the Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, January 9, 2013. Photo by Jordan Hollander. Gary Heidt (born Houston, Texas 1970) is a conceptual artist, experimental poet, musician, librettist, literary agent, and co-founder of Lovesphere, a 67-year performance project initiated in 1996, [1] and more recently, the Perceiver of Sound League.