The reputation game: how authors try to control their image from beyond the grave

[PeterK]

Stephen Enniss, director of the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, one of the largest and best-funded literary archives, says that agents are taking a more assertive role in authors’ estates and archives, which does not necessarily comport with an archivist’s code of ethics.
“You’ve got agents like Andrew Wylie who increasingly represent authors in the sale of their archives. Their role in trying to broker ever higher deals has been a destructive thing within the circulation and preservation of archives,” Enniss says.

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