The Curious Case of the Missing Naipaul

Late last week, a funny thing happened on Andrew Wylie’s Web site: V. S. Naipaul, one of the most distinguished authors the lit agent has signed up in recent memory, had disappeared from his online client list.

For a little while there, it was easy to let your imagination run wild. Honeymoon cut short as Read More

Naipaul Dumps Longtime Agent, Joins Wylie Empire

V. S. Naipaul has a new literary agent. After 30 years of working closely with U.K.-based veteran Gillon Aitken, the Nobel Prize–winning author of A House For Mr. Biswas has signed on with the mighty and ruthless American Andrew Wylie.

Mr. Wylie is known—and in some cases, hated—throughout the publishing industry for routinely and Read More