Andrew Wylie

Andrew Wylie (born 1947) is an American literary agent.

Early life Wylie is the son of Craig Wylie (1908–1976), one-time editor-in-chief at Houghton Mifflin, and Angela Fowler (1915–1989), daughter of the landscape architect and artist Robert Ludlow Fowler, Jr, of Oatlands, New York (son of judge Robert Ludlow Fowler, author of many legal texts).

Wylie grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, from which he was dismissed in 1965; an interview with his university alumni magazine stated that this was for arranging illicit excursions to Boston for fellow students and supplying them, illegally, with alcohol. When he was a teenager, he spent nine months in Manhattan's Payne Whitney clinic, a psychiatric hospital, for punching a police officer. Wylie himself denied this allegation, describing Yellow Flowers as a "youthful indiscretion".

Literary agent Wylie founded the literary agency named after himself in New York in 1980 with a $10,000 loan from his mother.

Throughout his career as a literary agent, Wylie has attracted attention for poaching clients from other agents, He has been criticized by other agents and publishers for harming the culture of the book industry.

Personal life In 1969, Wylie married his first wife, Christina, whom he had met in college. They had a son together, Nikolas. They divorced c.1974. In 1980 he remarried. Larry Clark was his best man. He has two additional children.