Toby Eady (28 February 1941 – 24 December 2017) was an English literary agent, whose clients included Bernard Cornwell, Patrick Marnham, Rachel Seiffert and Jung Chang.[1] When he set up his own agency, Toby Eady Associates, in 1968, his first book was Jack's Return Home by Ted Lewis, which was eventually made into the Michael Caine film, Get Carter. In 2015, Eady sold his agency to David Higham Associates.[2]
Eady's mother was the author Mary Wesley. His father was Heinz Otto Ziegler, a Czech political scientist and Royal Air Force pilot.[3] Eady was educated at Summer Fields School in Oxford, Bryanston School in Dorset, and read modern history at Wadham College, Oxford.[4] He was survived by his widow, the writer Xinran Xue, whom he married in 2002. He had previously been married to Isobel Macleod.[5]
References
edit- ^ Page, Benedicte (27 December 2017). "Literary agent Toby Eady dies". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- ^ "David Higham Associates – Past, Present, Future". Davidhigham.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ "Toby Eady". The Times. 13 January 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- ^ Marnham, Patrick (11 August 2022). "Siepmann [née Farmar], Mary Aline [other married name Mary Aline Eady, Lady Swinfen; pseud. Mary Wesley]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/88714. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 4 November 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Toby Eady, literary agent – obituary". The Telegraph. 19 February 2018.
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