Pat Kavanagh (agent)
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Pat Kavanagh is a distinguished British literary agent.
She is married to the writer Julian Barnes, whose agent she is. They live in North London.
She is famously the ex-agent of Martin Amis, who left her after 23 years to 'throw in his lot' with American agent, Andrew Wylie, nicknamed the Jackal [1]. The decision is believed to have been the end of Amis's friendship with Barnes.
Jeanette Winterson's novel "Written on the Body" is said to have some basis in her affair with Kavanagh [2].
[edit] Clients
Among her famous and varied clients are: [3]
- Sally Beauman
- Dirk Bogarde (Estate)
- Duncan Campbell
- Peter Conrad
- Wendy Cope
- Russell Davies
- Michael Dibdin
- Douglas Dunn
- James Fenton
- Nicci French
- John Fuller
- Andrew Graham-Dixon
- Robert Harris
- Caroline Harvey
- John Irving
- Clive James
- Arthur Koestler (Estate)
- Hermione Lee
- Laurie Lee (Estate)
- Prue Leith
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Brian Moore (Estate)
- Blake Morrison
- Andrew Motion
- Ruth Rendell
- Sandi Toksvig
- William Trevor
- Joanna Trollope
- Auberon Waugh (Estate)
- Francis Wheen
