Literary Agents of The Past
The first literary agents appeared around the year 1880 (Publishing).
- Gerald Drayson Adams
- George T. Bye
- Barthold Fles
- Rod Hall
- Kurt Hellmer
- Morton L. Janklow
- Otis Adelbert Kline
- Toni Mendez
- Harold Ober
- Larry Shaw
- Toni Strassman
- Virginia Kidd
- Stephen Slesinger
- H.N. Swanson
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