Dining with him, Mr. Greenfield recalled in another 2013 email, you felt as if you were in a different time as if Maxwell Perkins might show up for coffee.. He also prided himself on his sympathy for writers who lived far more wildly than he did. His first marriage, he would acknowledge, helped inspire him to go into business for himself. He didnt bother to attend a special screening, citing mixed early reviews, and didnt show up for a private party for the film. She was born on November 1, 1926 in Sterling IL to Olive (Cassell) Read More, Charlotte Stern Born: March 12, 1945 in Chilhowie, VA Died: January 24, 2023 in Rockford, IL Charlotte L. Stern, 77, of Rockford passed peacefully on January 24, 2023 while holding Duane and Todd's hand. I decided to go home, he told the AP in 2013. Carolyn was born on November 26, 1947 in Freeport Read More, Lucy Anderson in Rock Falls, IL in Sterling, IL Lucy Anderson, 94 of Sterling died Monday February 20, 2023 at Rock River Hospice and Home. He represented former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Judge John Sirica of Watergate fame and worked often with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during her time as an editor with Doubleday and Viking. But his success began with an unknown named Jack Kerouac and his hard-to-sell novel On the Road.. He had just turned 102. "He had a good death and died peacefully of old age," she told The Associated Press. Lord even recruited a doctor who attempted to get Kerouac to clean up, but the businessman eventually backed away because he was his literary agent, not his life agent., Lord attended Kerouacs funeral, sharing a limousine ride with his client Jimmy Breslin and standing by the grave alongside Allen Ginsberg, the sunlight filtering through the trees, the leaves brown after losing their fall colors.. But Mr. Lord had little involvement in the project, starring Sam Riley. After serving in the Air Force during World War II, Lord became part owner of the German magazine Weekend, which soon went out of business. Kerouac had already finished the regular novel The Town and the City , but had no agent and certainly needed one for his next book: On the Road was printed, Lord was one of the first to learn, on a 120-foot roll of architectural tracing paper . As a matter of longevity, at least, . He would later write that his upbringing was the kind of nice, orderly world that beatniks trampled on in the 50s and 60s.. [3] But Kerouac was a shy and fragile man, Lord wrote. Many of Mr. Lords biggest books Peter Gents North Dallas Forty, Bill Nacks Secretariat, Pete Axthelms The City Game grew out of that sports world.