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
• When his father died in 1973, the younger Tolkien became his literary executor.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
• Wanted: an up-and-coming poet to serve as her heir and literary executor.
  — Sheri Linden, latimes.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Hugo Vickers, her friend and literary executor, confirmed her death.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• His death was announced by Wendy Strothman, Mr. Hall’s literary executor.
  — David Mehegan and Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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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