Definition of literary executor
: a person entrusted with the management of the papers and unpublished works of a deceased author
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Nor does the Lady Macbeth of Williams’s life, his literary executor Maria Britneva, who both tried to marry Laughlin and terrorized him through her control of the Williams copyrights.
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Lanzmann’s decision to sell the letters from his former lover was impelled by a conflict with de Beauvoir’s adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, who is the philosopher’s literary executor.
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Wanted: an up-and-coming poet to serve as her heir and literary executor.
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To be sure, people who leave copies of their own letters with literary executors permit them to make the letters available to biographers.
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Kafka named his friend literary executor, asking Brod to burn all of his writing after his death.
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First Known Use of literary executor
1849
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