Background
Victor is the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, who ran a photographic equipment store.
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.
Publishing editor
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.
Conflict about what Ink should be led to its failure, and Victor returned to the United States to work for Knopf. Literary agent
Victor was one of the first former journalist/editors to make the move to be a publishing agent, when in the 1970s literary agents were not welcomed by British publishers.
However, many changed their minds when Victor"s first sale in 1976 was for the book and film rights to Stephen Shephard"s novel The Four Hundred for $1.5m. The following day Victor sold Eric Clapton"s memoirs for $4 million.
Victor no longer takes "blind" scripts sent to him, instead gaining clients through personal reference.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to literature. Douglas Adams (Estate)
Johanna Basford
Candice Bergen
Max Brooks
Mel Brooks
Tina Brown
Alastair Campbell
Raymond Chandler (Estate)
Eric Clapton
Sophie Dahl
Joe Eszterhas
Sir Harold Evans
Rupert Everett
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Frederick Forsyth
James Fox
Mark Frost
A. A. Gill
Geordie Greig
Josephine Hart (Estate)
Jack Higgins
Dylan Jones
Nigella Lawson
Kathy Lette
Andrew Marr
Iris Murdoch (Estate)
Edna O"Brien
Keith Richards
Ruth Rogers
Sir Stephen Spender (Estate)
Irving Wallace (Estate)
Lord Lloyd Webber
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Former clients include Will Self and Erica Jong.