literary executor

noun

1. a person entrusted with the publishable works and other papers of a deceased author.

Word History and Origins

Origin of literary executor¹

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

I sealed these carefully up, and began to bethink me whom I should appoint my literary executor.

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To him was entrusted the part of literary executor—it had been The Dreamer's own request.

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Barras left memoirs in a rough state to be drawn up by his literary executor, M. Rousselin de St Albin.

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Southey, who had defended Bell in the Quarterly, undertook to be Bell's biographer and literary executor.

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I am Mr. Rickman's oldest and most intimate friend, and he has done me the honour to make me his literary executor.

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