The list of well-known writers he represented is long. But his success began with an unknown named Jack Kerouac and his hard-to-sell novel “On the Road.”
In her book Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen, Linda Dahl writes: “Researching many of the women’s contributions to jazz is like what I imagine collecting butterflies to be—you go out with your net to many a remote, even secretive spot to track your shy and elusive quarry.”