literary executor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of literary executor
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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The battles fought between surviving friends—in this case Wilde’s literary executor, Robert Ross, and Wilde’s onetime boyfriend, Alfred “Bosie” Douglas—are more partisan, the enmities more acrimonious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Through her illness she had me bring her notebooks to the hospital as thoughts and words came to her,” said her friend and literary executor Michael Faucette.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
Strange as it seems, Griswold was also Poe's literary executor, and he expanded the obituary into a biographical essay that accompanied Poe's collected works.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
She and Daniel Keel, Highsmith’s literary executor and founding publisher of Diogenes, were the first people —besides Highsmith’s snooping lovers — to set eyes on the journals in the Swiss home where the author died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Despite this, when Poe unexpectedly passed away in 1849, Rufus GriswoId was named literary executor of his estate, to the surprise of many.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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