When did you start to represent Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne?
My daughter is thirty-seven and John told this story—it’s still difficult for me to talk about John—he told this story himself. He said, “Remember what I said to you when we were talking about you representing me?” I said, “No, I have no memory.” He said, “Don’t you remember when I said, ‘What if you were to have a child?’ Nobody would dare ask that question of a woman today! You would be stigmatized!” So I’ve represented him since before my first child, and she’s thirty-seven. At that point were you already representing Joan? No. I didn’t represent Joan until the book After Henry, when I came here. It’s been a long time now, about eighteen years. They were very good friends of mine. I knew Joan very well. She was represented by Lois Wallace. Well, first Helen Strauss at the William Morris Agency, and then she was inherited by Lois, and then she came to me. It’s been a long time now, but not back into the dark ages like it was with John. Were you surprised by the phenomenal commercial
