Andrew Wylie (literary agent)

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. He graduated from Harvard. ==Family==

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. ==Poet==

In 1972, Wylie published a short collection of poetry, Yellow Flowers. Many of the verses cited in public sources are sexually explicit in nature. In a 2007 interview, fellow agent Ira Silverberg suggested that Wylie has since attempted to acquire the remaining copies of the collection. 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. ==References==