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Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd

Kensington and Chelsea, ENG, UK • 20 - 49 Employees
Publishing

Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd is a Literary Agency based in London, UK, with an office in New York.Gillon Aitken Limited was founded by Gillon Aitken in 1976 and operated as a "one-man band" for several years; early clients included Germaine Greer, Shiva Naipaul, Piers Paul Read, Paul Theroux, Colin Thubron and Gavin Young. In 1984, by acquisition and in partnership with Brian Stone, Gillon Aitken formed an association with Hughes Massie Limited, founded in 1905 and agents inter alia for Agatha Christie and, in the British market only, J. D. Salinger and Harper Lee. Then known as Aitken & Stone Limited, in 1998 the company's name reverted to Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd following Brian Stone's retirement and the sale of the agency rights in the works of Agatha Christie. 1998 also saw the appointment of Clare Alexander to a prominent role in the affairs of the agency, whose strong development in recent years has owed much to her experience and contribution as it has to the long-standing direction of Sally Riley in the area of foreign language rights, on which the company has traditionally placed much emphasis. In April 2007, the company became Aitken Alexander Associates, with Gillon Aitken as the chairman and Clare Alexander and Sally Riley as joint managing directors. In 2008, Andrew Kidd, formerly Publisher of Picador, joined the agency as a director and senior agent.