Edward Victor CBE (9 September 1939 – 7 June 2017) was an American literary agent based in London for much of his career.Victor was born on 9 September 1939, in Bronx, New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrant parents, who ran a photographic equipment store. He went to Bayside High School in the borough of Queens, then earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, and after graduating attended Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, on a Marshall Scholarship in 1961.Victor married Michelene Samuels (now known as the writer Michelene Wandor) in 1963; the couple made their home in London and had two children. Victor worked for publishing house the Oborne Press, then part of Lord Beaverbrook's Express Newspapers group. He then worked on coffee table books for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. After approaching George Weidenfeld in the toilet, Victor was moved to general publishing, looking after the works of Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov. Wikipedia
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