literary executor

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

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First recorded in 1865–70

From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2014.
The 2014 Novel of the Year|Nathaniel Rich|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To reclaim it, he had to move beyond established conventions about how a literary career should be conducted.
A Year In The Life of The Canterbury Tales’ Storied Beginnings|Wendy Smith|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.
What Would Jane Eyre Sext?|Jennie Yabroff|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Louis Petit de Bachaumon died; a native of Paris, known as the author of several literary works.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
It was strenuously opposed by all possible means, governmental, legislative, and literary.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Samuel Badcock, an English divine and writer, died; admired as a pulpit orator and a man of literary talent.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
She was a woman of great intellectual endowment, with highly cultivated literary tastes.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, died; an English statesman and literary character.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell