Philip Spitzer, 82, founder of the eponymous literary agency, died on October 5 in Southampton, NY. His clients included James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Alafair Burke, Andre Dubus, Andre Dubus III, Ken Bruen, Simon Van Booy, among many others. Spitzer began his career as an editorial assistant at NYU Press and got his starting in agenting in the 1960s, when he worked for John Cushman Associates, then the American affiliate of Curtis, Brown, London. In 1969 he formed the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency, representing a broad range of fiction and nonfiction writers, as well more than a dozen French […]
