Pat Kavanagh Signed Letter

Description: Pat Kavanagh Signed Letter - Literary Agent Letter is In Verygood Condition From 1960'sPatricia Olive "Pat" Kavanagh (31 January 1940, Durban, South Africa – 20 October 2008, London, England) was a British literary agent.Kavanagh was born in 1940 in Durban, South Africa, where her father was a journalist before and after his service as a fighter pilot in the SAAFduring the Second World War. Her mother, Olive (née Le Roux), was a pioneering public health inspector. Her half-sister, Julie Kavanagh, is a ballet critic. Her half-brother, Michael O'Brien, is a geologist living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.She attended the University of Cape Town, but pursued an interest in acting. She had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood after coming to Britain in 1964. She did not get paid for the part, but, as she later recalled, she did "get to snog Richard Burton". It marked the end of her acting career. While working for J. Walter Thompson as a copywriter, she answered an advertisement for a position as a literary agent. She was hired by "legendary agent" A. D. Peters who taught her how to negotiate and gave her responsibility for selling serialization and newspaper rights for the agency's early group of clients, including Arthur Koestler, S. J. Perelman, Rebecca West and Tom Wolfe. She was married to, and was the literary agent of, the writer Julian Barnes. They lived in North London. In the 1980s, Kavanagh left Barnes for a relationship with author Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, but later returned to the marriage. Winterson is said to have used the relationship as the basis of her novel The Passion (1987). Kavanagh became the former agent in 1985 of Martin Amis, who left her after 23 years to "throw in his lot" with American agent, Andrew Wylie, as part of an effort to get a large advance for his own novel, The Information. In 2001, her employer, now known as Peters, Fraser & Dunlop, was purchased by CSS Stellar, a company specializing in sports marketing. Kavanagh was one of several former employees who left the company in September 2007 to form United Agents. Her clients left to join her at the new firm. Her clients included: Sally BeaumanDirk Bogarde (Estate)Duncan CampbellWendy CopeRussell DaviesMichael DibdinDouglas DunnJames FentonSir Christopher FraylingNicci and Sean FrenchSimon GarfieldAndrew Graham-DixonRobert HarrisJohn IrvingClive JamesArthur Koestler (Estate)Dame Hermione LeeLaurie Lee (Estate)Prue LeithAdam Mars-JonesBrian Moore (Estate)Blake MorrisonSir Andrew MotionJeanette WintersonChris MullinJohn PrestonRuth RendellHelen SimpsonSandi ToksvigWilliam Trevor, KBEJoanna Trollope (aka Caroline Harvey)Auberon Waugh (Estate)Francis WheenBee Wilson SOURCE Wikipedia

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