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Knox Burger, Agent And Book Editor, Dies At 87

Posted at 7:51AM Wednesday 13 Jan 2010

As a magazine editor in the 1950s, Knox Burger published Kurt Vonnegut's first short story. As a book editor in the 1960s, he asked John D. MacDonald to create a mystery series around a character who eventually turned out to be the detective Travis McGee. And as a literary agent in the 1970s, he took on a novel about a Russian detective by a largely unknown writer — "Gorky Park," by Martin Cruz Smith — which in 1980 he sold to Random House for $1 million.

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