His clients included Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Howard Fast, Jimmy Breslin, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
In 1976, his book Returning The Serve Intelligently was included in the United States Tennis Instructional Series published by Doubleday.
[1][3][4] After graduation, Lord joined the U.S. Army during World War II, and was an editor for a weekly magazine supplement of Stars and Stripes.
Lord's other noted clients included Jimmy Breslin, Ken Kesey with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and political figures like John Sirica, Robert McNamara, and Ted Kennedy.
The article reported that Lord was living in a Lower Manhattan home for seniors, and he was starting a new literary agency at 99 years old.