Ed Victor

Edward Victor CBE (born 1939 in the Bronx, New York City) is a prominent literary agent.

Victor is the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, who ran a photographic equipment store. After graduating from Dartmouth College, in 1961 Victor attended the University of Cambridge on a Marshall scholarship.

Victor married Englishwoman Michelene Samuels (now known as the writer Michelene Wandor) in 1963, and making their home in London the couple had two children. Victor worked for publishing house the Oborne Press, then part of Lord Beaverbrook's Express Newspapers group. He then worked on coffee table books for Weidenfeld and Nicolson. After approaching Lord Weidenfeld in the toilet, he was moved to general publishing, looking after the works of Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov.

In 1970 his marriage ended in divorce, and wanting a new challenge Victor co-founded countercultural newspaper Ink (May 1971–February 1972) with Oz founders Felix Dennis and Richard Neville. Conflict about what Ink should be led to its failure, and Victor returned to the United States to work for Knopf.

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