The former editor and agent died earlier this month at home in Charlottesville, VA. Working at Macmillan in 1969, she offered a $2,000 advance for the “much-rejected” Jonathan Livingston Seagull. “In 1974 Ms. Friede was offered her own imprint at Delacorte Press, where she continued to publish flying books as well as works by writers like Françoise Sagan, Jorge Amado and Hugh Downs. In the early 1980s, after Doubleday acquired Delacorte, she started Eleanor Friede Books, a literary agency.”NYT
