How to Use literary executor in a Sentence

literary executor

noun
  • His literary executor, Wendy Strothman, confirmed the death but did not give a cause.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 24 June 2018
  • Hugo Vickers, her friend and literary executor, confirmed her death.
    — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Kafka named his friend literary executor, asking Brod to burn all of his writing after his death.
    — Colin Dickey, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
  • Oliver Soden, her literary executor, said the cause was heart and kidney failure.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • When his father died in 1973, the younger Tolkien became his literary executor.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • To be sure, people who leave copies of their own letters with literary executors permit them to make the letters available to biographers.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
  • More than thirty years ago, Hazel Holt, Pym’s close friend and literary executor, published a biography of her.
    — Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • Edward Mendelson, Auden’s literary executor, has been editing the ten-volume series for over three decades; Poems will complete it.
    — Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Both my father’s widow, Ilana Howe, and I, the literary executor of his estate, were unaware of this earlier publication.
    — Nina Howe, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
  • When Stella died, in 1990, her family made Sampas Jack’s literary executor.
    — Joyce Johnson, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
  • Juneteenth, planned as a three-section epic, was collated from voluminous drafts by Ellison’s literary executor, John Callahan.
    — Armond White, National Review, 23 June 2021
  • Bowden was married twice and had many relationships, including with the person who became his literary executor, Mary Martha Miles, misidentified in the piece as his second wife.
    — Matt McLeod, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Alex Preston, his grandson and literary executor, sought to reconcile Professor Hynes’s roles as a gladiatorial warrior and a pensive professor who continued writing almost to the end.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019

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