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Definition of literary executor in English: literary executornoun A person entrusted with a dead writer's papers and copyrighted and unpublished works. Example sentencesExamples - Ideas would come thick and fast and yet be sorted out with wonderful clarity in that final message to one's literary executors.
- Callahan is literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate.
- She was also one of Wittgenstein's literary executors and translators.
- His literary executors were seriously worried about the impact of his new work; one of them added a preface to temper the author's well-supported claims.
- Landor, Dickens, and Carlyle appointed him their literary executor.
- She has made me her literary executor in her absence.
- You can say anything and rationalize away any apparent errors without fear that some day you will be exposed as a fraud by your literary executor.
- He was well known in British intellectual life: he was one of Bentham's literary executors and had edited the first numbers of the Westminster Review; he was a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
- Apparently he was a sound committee man, a dab hand at memorial addresses, and a reliable literary executor.
- But being named literary executor does not necessarily prepare one for the task of editing the long-awaited second novel of one of America's finest writers.
- A little over three months later he was dead and she became a single mother and his literary executor.
- Churchill left a will on his death-bed, naming Wilkes as his literary executor.
- He was asked to be a literary executor: ‘I accepted this as an honor.’
- In one piece in this provocative selection of lectures, reviews and essays, he recalls visiting the widow of John Stewart Collis, who had made him his literary executor.
- Although his literary executors denied her the right to quote from his private papers, she has succeeded in producing a thoroughly readable and consistently interesting account of his twin careers as composer and writer.
- Note to my literary executor: if you ever dream of doing anything like this after I die, I'll come back from the dead and reach out of the toilet and unspool your guts while dragging you down to hell.
- But for the literary executor to complain about underwear is just too silly for words.
- After his death, his literary executors proposed to publish an edited version of these diaries, covering the period 1964-1966.
- Hart-Davis was, serendipitously one might almost say, using the coinage of another Walpole, appointed Hugh's literary executor, and became inheritor of a usefully large proportion of his testator's posthumous earnings.
- And as Orwell's literary executor, Sonia was determined to honour a wish he expressed perfectly clearly.
Definition of literary executor in US English: literary executornoun A person entrusted with a dead writer's papers and copyrighted and unpublished works. Example sentencesExamples - Hart-Davis was, serendipitously one might almost say, using the coinage of another Walpole, appointed Hugh's literary executor, and became inheritor of a usefully large proportion of his testator's posthumous earnings.
- Landor, Dickens, and Carlyle appointed him their literary executor.
- She has made me her literary executor in her absence.
- Note to my literary executor: if you ever dream of doing anything like this after I die, I'll come back from the dead and reach out of the toilet and unspool your guts while dragging you down to hell.
- But for the literary executor to complain about underwear is just too silly for words.
- A little over three months later he was dead and she became a single mother and his literary executor.
- In one piece in this provocative selection of lectures, reviews and essays, he recalls visiting the widow of John Stewart Collis, who had made him his literary executor.
- Although his literary executors denied her the right to quote from his private papers, she has succeeded in producing a thoroughly readable and consistently interesting account of his twin careers as composer and writer.
- Apparently he was a sound committee man, a dab hand at memorial addresses, and a reliable literary executor.
- You can say anything and rationalize away any apparent errors without fear that some day you will be exposed as a fraud by your literary executor.
- He was well known in British intellectual life: he was one of Bentham's literary executors and had edited the first numbers of the Westminster Review; he was a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
- And as Orwell's literary executor, Sonia was determined to honour a wish he expressed perfectly clearly.
- Callahan is literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate.
- Churchill left a will on his death-bed, naming Wilkes as his literary executor.
- But being named literary executor does not necessarily prepare one for the task of editing the long-awaited second novel of one of America's finest writers.
- Ideas would come thick and fast and yet be sorted out with wonderful clarity in that final message to one's literary executors.
- She was also one of Wittgenstein's literary executors and translators.
- His literary executors were seriously worried about the impact of his new work; one of them added a preface to temper the author's well-supported claims.
- He was asked to be a literary executor: ‘I accepted this as an honor.’
- After his death, his literary executors proposed to publish an edited version of these diaries, covering the period 1964-1966.
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