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Gillon Reid Aitken (29 March – 28 October ) was an English literary agent and founder of the agency Aitken Alexander Associates. [1] He was born in Calcutta, India, and spent his early years in Darjeeling, before attending boarding-school in the UK. Bits of an Interview with Andrew Wylie -
Gillon Reid Aitken was born on March 29 in British-ruled India. The infant encounter with boarding school came in Darjeeling before being shipped off to England as the second world. Gillon Aitken - Wikipedia
Gillon Aitken was the quintessential British gentleman. His decency, dazzlingly dry wit, stoicism, wisdom, erudition, kindness, elegance and huge sense of fun represented the best of traditional British values. Gillon Reid Aitken was born in India in , the middle child of three. Gillon Reid Aitken (29 March 1938 – 28 October 2016) was an English literary agent and founder of the agency Aitken Alexander Associates. [ 1 ] He was born in Calcutta, India, and spent his early years in Darjeeling, before attending boarding-school in the UK.
Gillon Aitken - Wikipedia
He feels the eyes of his peers upon him once again, riveted by the recent unraveling of his trans-Atlantic partnership with two London agents, Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone. He is suddenly alone. Gillon Aitken: A great literary agent we all looked up to
Nobel Laureate Sir VS Naipaul, 76, (pictured, on the left) has ditched his literary agent of more than 30 years, Gillon Aitken, for the big-hitting American who is still notorious for securing Martin Amis a £, advance for The Information in the mid-Nineties.
ANDREW "the Jackal" Wylie (pictured, on the right) has done it again and poached another top author. Nobel Laureate Sir VS Naipaul, 76, (pictured, on the left) has ditched his literary agent of more than 30 years, Gillon Aitken, for the big-hitting American who is still notorious for securing Martin Amis a £500,000 advance for The Information in the mid-Nineties.
Gordon Burn was represented by Gillon Aitken and Aitken Alexander continue to handle his Estate. Gillon Aitken, the great literary agent, who has just died, was a reserved man. It is an admirable and brave thing to be in a culture which increasingly mistakes reserve for coldness. All Gillon.
Gillon Aitken and Brian Stone. (This tribute to the legendary literary agent, Gillon Aitken, was posted on 29 October 2016 on Patrick French’s Facebook page. I have reposted the text and accompanying photographs here with his permission.) Remembering the much-loved Gillon Aitken, who died this week.
The Literary Agent as Zelig - The New York Times
Remembering the much-loved Gillon Aitken, who died this week. He was born in Calcutta in and sent to boarding school in Darjeeling aged three; he became a spy, a translator of Pushkin and the publisher of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. Tribute to Gillon Aitken by Patrick French | Jaya's blog
Gillon Aitken, the great literary agent, who has just died, was a reserved man. It is an admirable and brave thing to be in a culture which increasingly mistakes reserve for coldness. All. 
The Literary Agent as Zelig - The New York Times
Gillon Reid Aitken (29 March – 28 October ) was an English literary agent and founder of the agency Aitken Alexander Associates. [1] He was born in Calcutta, India, and spent his early years in Darjeeling, before attending boarding-school in the UK.