Edward "Ed" Victor CBE (9 September 1939 – 7 June 2017) was an American literary agent, based, for most of his career, in London, England.
The son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, who ran a photographic equipment store,[1][2] he went to Bayside High School in the borough of Queens, later earning a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.
Victor worked for the Oborne Press, a publishing house, then part of Lord Beaverbrook's Express Newspapers group.
After approaching George Weidenfeld in the toilet, Victor was moved to general publishing, looking after the works of Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov.
However, many changed their minds when Victor's first sale in 1976[7] was for the book and film rights to Stephen Shephard's novel The Four Hundred for $1.5 million.
[11] With his second wife, Carol Ryan, Victor lived mainly in London, with a secondary home in the Hamptons on Long Island, in the United States.