literary executor

noun

a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.

Origin of literary executor

First recorded in 1865–70

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I sealed these carefully up, and began to bethink me whom I should appoint my literary executor.
Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service | Charles James Lever
To him was entrusted the part of literary executor—it had been The Dreamer's own request.
The Dreamer | Mary Newton Stanard
Barras left memoirs in a rough state to be drawn up by his literary executor, M. Rousselin de St Albin.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 | Various
Southey, who had defended Bell in the Quarterly, undertook to be Bell's biographer and literary executor.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) | Leslie Stephen
I am Mr. Rickman's oldest and most intimate friend, and he has done me the honour to make me his literary executor.
The Divine Fire | May Sinclair

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