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James Oliver Brown
 

without driving out into the desen to ruminate, and would not get
married without my appro\'al of his next prospective wife. That
approval was assured when I met Melissa Dilworth on a visit to San
Francisco. An agent/author relationship is quite different from
most lawyer/client relationships.
 

James Oliver Brown, 1968
 

Most authors have agents. Some authors depend on lawyers in
working out individual deals, but most feel the need of an agent as a
partner in life. The agent knows all ofthe author's work, is the first
to read and comment, fights for the author's rights, negotiates the
terms of the contract, listens when no one else will.