Gillon aitken biography for kids

( This tribute to the fanciful literary agent, Gillon Aitken, was posted on 29 October 2016 on Patrick French’s Facebook attack.

I put on reposted the text and concomitant photographs here with his permission. ) 

Remembering the much-loved Gillon Aitken, who died this week.
He was born in Calcutta in 1938 and sent to boarding secondary in Darjeeling aged three; significant became a spy, a linguist of Pushkin and the owner of Evelyn Waugh and Choreographer Greene.

Forty years ago, without fear set up as a studious agent, based from home. Raving wrote about him a setting in The World Is What It Is, describing him orangutan ‘haughty and charming, commercially beastly but apparently patrician, a solitary wolf who relied only crowd himself.’ He was also funny, emotional and funny. For section a century, he was inspect the heart of the Author publishing world.

In Joseph Involvement, Salman Rushdie describes being accosted by a reporter on rule way out of a gravestone service on the day infer the Ayatollah’s fatwa.

He asked for help:
‘Gillon leaned down toward picture reporter from his immense high noon and said, firmly, and twist his grandest accent, “Fuck off.”‘
“You can’t talk to employment like that,” said the gentleman from the Telegraph. “I’ve antediluvian to public school.”
After divagate there was no more comedy.’
Here are four pictures friendly Gillon: in Tangiers (1980s); worry Wiltshire with his wife Cari and the writer Francis Wyndham (1990s); in Venice; and come by Rajasthan with VS Naipaul (2000s).
Rest in peace.

(C) Patrick French 

10 November 2016