Toni Strassman

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Toni Strassman (18951984) was an authors' representative based in New York City. Her clients included Charles Harris (Brick) Garrigues, [1] John and Martha Clayton, [1] William Goyen, [2] Harry Mark Petrakis [3] and Friderike Zweig, the first wife of Stefan Zweig. [3]

She was born as Fanny Strassman on October 28, 1895. [4] Of delicate health as a young woman, she spent most of 1926 and 1927 in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico before returning to New York. At that time she wanted to be a dancer or actress, and in 1929 she was an understudy with the Provincetown Players in Greenwich Village, but the group disbanded before her show was mounted. [1]

Strassman then worked for Viking Press; she changed her name to Toni in 1936, shortly before she became a full-time literary agent. [1] She died in New York City on April 15, 1988. [4]

Her papers, which include correspondence, memoranda, contracts, royalty statements, manuscripts, diaries, daybooks and photographs, are in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 George Garrigues, He Usually Lived With a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman, 2006, Quail Creek Press, Los Angeles ISBN   0-9634830-1-3
  2. Darlene Harbour Unruh, "Selected Letters From a Writer's Life," The Mississippi Quarterly, December 22, 1995
  3. 1 2 3 Archives and Manuscript Collections Relating to Women in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
  4. 1 2 Social Security Death Index, cited at www.footnote.com