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Robert Mountsier

1888 – 1972

Author, journalist, and literary agent

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About Robert Mountsier

Lived 1888 – 1972 (aged 83–84). Robert Mountsier was a journalist and literary agent.

Robert Mountsier (1888–1972) was an author, journalist and literary agent for writer D. H. Lawrence.

He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1909 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

In his later life he lived in Crestwood, New York, and died at the age of 84 on November 23, 1972, in a New York City nursing home. He was survived by siblings Carl Mountser, Mabel Mountser and Alathea Walker.

He was also the literary editor of Judge (magazine) in 1915 under the name A. Robert Mountsier.

Between 1916 and 1919 he was in England, France, Turkey and Armenia. In 1920 he returned to Europe on a commercial assignment to investigate business conditions "with special reference to the copper and brass industries."

After the war Mountsier returned to the Sun. In 1929 he covered a 140-day around-the-world voyage of the Hamburg-American Line Resolute. The Sun closed in 1950, and afterward he edited an automotive magazine, Old Timers for the Automobile Old Timers organization in New York City.

Mountsier was also the American literary agent for writer D. H. Lawrence, beginning in October 1920. Lawrence broke with his previous agent, J.B. Pinker, and replaced him with Mountsier in New York and Curtis Brown in London.

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1888
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Died
1972

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Who was Robert Mountsier?

author, journalist, and literary agent

When was Robert Mountsier born?

Robert Mountsier was born in 1888.

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Robert Mountsier died in 1972.

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Robert Mountsier was a journalist and literary agent.

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· Wikipedia: Robert Mountsier

· Wikidata: Q86310671

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