Comments on: RIP: Don Congdon 1918-2009 http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/rip-don-congdon-1918-2009/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Tue, 21 May 2013 17:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sam http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/rip-don-congdon-1918-2009/#comment-1509 Sam Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:24:07 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=6601#comment-1509 I never met him, nor likely ever would have had we each lived to be four hundred. But due to that story I felt an immediate respect for his professionalism and relationship with those people he represented. Though this was a very small, perhaps insignificant part of Congdon’s career (and this almost makes it all the more memorable to me in a way) it is what I will always remember when I think of Mr. Congdon.

]]> By: Sam http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/rip-don-congdon-1918-2009/#comment-1499 Sam Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:07:20 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=6601#comment-1499 It must have taken an incredible man to stay with Miller all those long, quiet years, and to work so hard to see that last painful, beautiful book through. That man was Don Congdon.

]]> By: Sam http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/rip-don-congdon-1918-2009/#comment-1498 Sam Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:42:11 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=6601#comment-1498 Don Congdon was the literary agent for Walter M. Miller’s “Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman” which Terry Bisson finished. The story of the finishing of the “Leibowitz” sequel is amazing to read, from Bisson: http://terrybisson.com/page4/page4.html:

I had looked forward to meeting Miller and getting his approval of my work. Congdon disabused me of that notion. “I was his agent for forty years and we never met in person.”

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