{
  "agent": "Kurt Hellmer",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Max Frisch",
      "note": "Swiss playwright and novelist; Hellmer was his New York representative (The Firebugs, 1964).",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Frisch",
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76483"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Friedrich Dürrenmatt",
      "note": "Swiss dramatist (The Visit, The Physicists); represented in the U.S. by Hellmer.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_D%C3%BCrrenmatt",
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78503"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Bertolt Brecht",
      "note": "German dramatist and poet; among the German-language authors Hellmer placed with American publishers and theatres.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht",
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6113"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sławomir Mrożek",
      "note": "Polish playwright of the absurd; U.S. representation from the early 1960s.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek",
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315082"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Jane Rule",
      "note": "For whom Hellmer secured publication of Desert of the Heart (1964) despite sustained resistance to the book.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Rule",
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1683203"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael Noonan",
      "note": "Australian novelist and screenwriter; papers held at the National Library of Australia.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Noonan_(novelist)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Jacob Picard",
      "note": "German-Jewish poet and prose writer in exile; papers at the Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Picard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Alen Pol Kobryn",
      "note": "American poet whose work Hellmer was the first to represent."
    },
    {
      "name": "George Bernard Shaw",
      "note": "Whose plays Hellmer produced in New York in the 1940s.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw",
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19185"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Gershon Einbinder",
      "note": "Yiddish novelist and children's writer better known by his pen name Chaver Paver; represented by the Hellmer agency in New York.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaver_Paver"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter James",
      "note": "British novelist whose first agent Hellmer was; later the #1 bestselling crime writer in the UK, author of the Roy Grace series.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_James_(writer)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ronald Searle",
      "note": "British illustrator and cartoonist (St Trinian's, Molesworth); handled by the Hellmer agency in New York.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Kathleen Nott",
      "note": "British poet, philosopher, and novelist; handled by the Hellmer agency in New York.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Nott"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "James Lee Burke",
      "note": "American novelist (Dave Robicheaux series); early representation by the Hellmer agency in New York.",
      "sameAs": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lee_Burke"
      ]
    }
  ]
}