Toni Strassman (1895–1984) was an authors' representative based in New York City. Her clients included Charles Harris (Brick) Garrigues,George Garrigues, ''He Usually Lived With a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman,'' 2006, Quail Creek Press, Los Angeles
John and Martha Clayton, William Goyen,Darlene Harbour Unruh, "Selected Letters From a Writer's Life," ''The Mississippi Quarterly,'' December 22, 1995
/ref> Harry Mark Petrakis and Friderike Zweig, the first wife of Stefan Zweig. She was born as Fanny Strassman on October 28, 1895.Social Security Death Index, cited at www.footnote.com
/ref> Of delicate health as a young woman, she spent most of 1926 and 1927 in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico before returning to New York. At that time she wanted to be a dancer or actress, and in 1929 she was an understudy with the Provincetown Players in

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, but the group disbanded before her show was mounted. Strassman then worked for Viking Press; she changed her name to Toni in 1936, shortly before she became a full-time literary agent. She died in New York City on April 15, 1988. Her papers, which include correspondence, memoranda, contracts, royalty statements, manuscripts, diaries, daybooks and photographs, are in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at

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.Archives and Manuscript Collections Relating to Women in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
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Finding aid to Toni Strassman papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strassman, Toni 1984 deaths American literary agents 1895 births