As per our current Database, Harold Matson has been died on Jan 5, 1988 (age 89).
When Harold Matson die, Harold Matson was 89 years old.
| Popular As | Harold Matson |
| Occupation | |
| Age | 89 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | February 26, 1898 (Michigan) |
| Birthday | February 26 |
| Town/City | Michigan |
| Nationality | Michigan |
Harold Matson’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Harold Matson was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Literary agent who helped launch and manage the careers of Writers Evelyn Waugh, Herman Wouk, and Flannery O'Connor.
He worked as a reporter in California, Hawaii and Arizona, later joining the McClure Newspaper syndicate, and then worked for a literary agency for six years before opening his own.
He negotiated a $106,000 contract, a record sum at the time, for the paperback rights to Robert Ruark's Something of Value, and got Doubleday to agree to advance $20,000 to an unknown author working on their first book.
He had two daughters and three sons with his wife Ann T. Matson.
John Irving was just one of the many prominent authors signed to his literary agency.
