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Giles Gordon (Giles Alexander Esmé Gordon) was born on 23 May, 1940 in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a Scottish literary agent and writer (1940–2003). Discover Giles Gordon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Giles Alexander Esmé Gordon
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Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 23 May, 1940
Birthday 23 May
Birthplace Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of death 14 November, 2003
Died Place Edinburgh, Scotland
Nationality Scottish

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Who Is Giles Gordon's Wife?

His wife is Margaret Eastoe, m. 1964–1989, her death Maggie McKernan, m. 1990

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Parents Esmé Gordon (father)
Wife Margaret Eastoe, m. 1964–1989, her death Maggie McKernan, m. 1990
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Giles Gordon Net Worth

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1910

The son of Esmé Gordon (1910–1993), an architect and Honorary Secretary (1973–1978) of the Royal Scottish Academy, and his wife Betsy, Giles Gordon was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent day school.

Here he acted in school productions, including Iolanthe, with future broadcaster Gordon Honeycombe, among others.

After school, where Giles persistently failed examinations, he attended, for a time, Edinburgh College of Art, where his father lectured on architecture.

1940

Giles Alexander Esmé Gordon (23 May 1940 – 14 November 2003) was a Scottish literary agent and writer, based for most of his career in London.

1959

In 1959, Gordon joined the Edinburgh publisher Oliver and Boyd as a trainee; he remained as their employee for nearly four years.

1961

In 1961 and 1962, he edited the first four issues of the Saltire Society's quarterly magazine New Saltire.

1962

In 1962, he moved to London, and was advertising manager for Secker & Warburg for a year, editor at Hutchinson in 1966, and then of the plays list at Penguin, where he launched the Penguin Modern Playwrights series.

1964

He married Margaret Eastoe in 1964; they had two sons and a daughter.

1966

In 1966, he released a collection of poems, Two & Two Make One, which was published by Akros on a print run of 350 copies.

1967

He became editorial director at Gollancz in 1967 and stayed for five years, abolishing the uniform style in which the company's books had previously appeared.

At this time, he interviewed playwrights for Transatlantic Review.

1971

He also wrote half a dozen novels between 1971 and 1980, and later a memoir Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement (1993), a title that caused accusations of impropriety by quoting a comment from one of his clients, the Prince of Wales.

1972

In 1972, he clashed with the directors at Gollancz over their desire to remove some of the sex from a novel by Dennis Potter, and joined agent Anthony Shiel, later Sheil Land Associates, aiming to improve the terms for authors.

Among the writers he represented at one time or another were Peter Ackroyd, Allan Massie, Penelope Mortimer, Vikram Seth, Sue Townsend, Barry Unsworth and Fay Weldon.

1980

He recognised the merits of an early Adrian (then Nigel) Mole sketch by Townsend, and persuaded her to turn it into a full-length book, which together with its sequel sold more copies than any other two books by the same author during the 1980s.

Of wider significance, he suggested Spycatcher by Peter Wright, with Paul Greengrass, be written.

The book, which the British government attempted to ban internationally, detailed allegations of a criminal activity by the security services in which the principal author had directly participated.

As an agent, he was successful in securing larger fees for his clients, including a £650,000 advance for Peter Ackroyd's biographies of Blake and Dickens and a £250,000 advance for Vikram Seth's first novel and later £1.3 million for Two Lives, a memoir of Seth's great-uncle and aunt.

1983

He returned to his love of the theatre as drama critic for The Spectator (1983–1984) and the London Daily News briefly published by Robert Maxwell in 1987.

He also leaked bookish gossip to the satirical magazine Private Eye and wrote their "Bookworm" column.

1989

His wife Margaret died of an incurable illness in 1989.

1990

Gordon's second marriage was to Maggie McKernan in 1990, with whom he had a son and two daughters.

Gordon died aged 63, from injuries sustained in a fall a fortnight earlier outside his home in Edinburgh.

1994

Breaking with his employer Sheil Land in 1994, he was prevented by a court order from contact with his clients lest he poach them.

He set up the Scottish office of Curtis Brown in 1994.

The offshoot was quietly closed after Gordon's death.

His daughter Hattie had, at the time of her father's death, just published a memoir of her brother Gareth, who had died by suicide in 1994 at the age of 24.

2004

His funeral took place at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, and later a memorial service was held in London at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields on 17 March 2004.

He has a small marker stone at the foot of his parents' grave, where he is buried, against the north wall of the south-western extension of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh.