After college Mr. Victor was hired as an art books editor at the Weidenfeld & Nicolson publishing house in London. In 1971 Mr. Victor collaborated with Felix Dennis and Richard Neville in a quixotic, and ultimately unsuccessful, countercultural newspaper venture called Ink. The historian Simon Schama said on Twitter last week that Mr. Victor was “funny, stylish, gossipy, very very shrewd.”Frenetic, too. Who does he think he is?’” Mr. Victor told The Guardian in 2007. “I can sell film rights, I can sell television rights, I can sell book rights.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 23:37 UTC