- Toni Strassman
Toni Strassman (
c. 1898 -1984) was aliterary agent based in New York City. Her clients included Charles Harris (Brick) Garrigues, John and Martha Clayton,William Goyen , Harry Mark Petrakis and Friderike Zweig, the first wife ofStefan Zweig .She was born as Fanny Strassman. 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 inGreenwich Village , but the group disbanded before her show was mounted.Strassman then worked for
Viking Press ; she changed her name to Toni in 1936, shortly before she became a full-time literary agent. She herself wrote and published one science-fiction story, "The Last Dark," (under the pen name La Selle Gilman) in "Super Science Stories" for April 1951.Her papers, which include correspondence, memoranda, contracts, royalty statements, manuscripts, diaries, daybooks and photographs, are in the Butler Library at
Columbia University .References
* "He Usually Lived With a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman" (2006) by George Garrigues. Quail Creek Press. ISBN 0-9634830-1-3.
External links
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/womenstudies/archiv1.html/ Her papers at Columbia University]
* [http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22toni+strassman%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-pull-web-t&x=wrt&meta=vl%3Dlang_ca%26vl%3Dlang_en%26vl%3Dlang_fr%26vl%3Dlang_es/ Other references]
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