Andrew Wylie (born 1947), known as The Jackal, is an American literary agent.

Early life

Wylie is the son of Craig Wylie (1908–1976), one time editor-in-chief at

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, and Angela (1915–1989), daughter of the landscape architect and artist Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr, of Oatlands, New York (son of judge Robert Ludlow Fowler, author of many legal texts). His grandfather, Yale-educated lawyer Horace Wylie, left his wife and children to marry the poet and novelist Elinor (née Hoyt), then Mrs Philip Simmons Hichborn, seventeen years his junior, causing a scandal; Horace was son of the federal judge Andrew Wylie and grandson of Rev. Andrew Wylie, first President of

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. Wylie grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, from which he was dismissed in 1965; an interview with his university alumni magazine stated that this was for arranging illicit excursions to Boston for fellow students and supplying them, illegally, with alcohol.

Poet

In 1972, Wylie published a short collection of poetry, ''Yellow Flowers''. Many of the verses cited in public sources are sexually explicit in nature. In a 2007 interview, fellow agent Ira Silverberg suggested that Wylie has since attempted to acquire the remaining copies of the collection. Wylie himself denied this allegation, describing ''Yellow Flowers'' as a "youthful indiscretion".Grove, Lloyd (December 14, 2007)
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Literary agent

Wylie founded the literary agency named after him in New York in 1980. He opened a second office in London in 1996. It now represents more than 1,000 clients and literary estates. For his business tactics, Wylie has been nicknamed "The Jackal". Some of Wylie's clients include: * Martin Amis *

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Foundation *The C. V. Wedgwood Estate Throughout his career as a literary agent, Wylie has attracted attention for poaching clients from other agents. In 1995 Martin Amis left his agent of 22 years, Pat Kavanagh, for Wylie, who was reported to have secured an advance of £500,000 for Amis's novel '' The Information''. In July 2010, Wylie launched a new business,

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. Wylie's friendly attitude towards Amazon was short-lived, though; in 2014 he advised: "If you have a choice between the plague and Amazon, pick the plague." He later went on to liken Amazon's tactics to those of the

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References

External links

Corporate websiteVictor Bockris and Andrew Wylie Collection
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