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Sterling Lord
Sterling Lord was the founder and cochairman of Sterling Lord Literistic and represented authors such as Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey for more than half a century. B...visualizza altroSterling Lord was the founder and cochairman of Sterling Lord Literistic and represented authors such as Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey for more than half a century. Born in the Mississippi River town of Burlington, Iowa, Lord graduated from Grinnell College in 1942. After serving in the air force in WWII, Lord worked in New York City for a number of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, before opening his literary agency in 1952. In addition to Kerouac and Kesey, he represented such authors as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dick Francis, Howard Fast, and Stan and Jan Berenstain. Lord played competitive tennis for seventy-eight years and competed with or against Don Budge, Helen Wills Moody, Billy Talbert, Jean Borotra, and Marcel Bernard. Lord passed away in 2022 at the age of 102.visualizza meno