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Throughout his career as a literary agent, Wylie has attracted attention for poaching clients from other agents, and has been nicknamed "The Jackal" for his business tactics. He has been criticized by other agents and publishers for harming the culture of the book industry. In 1995
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for fellow students and supplying them, illegally, with alcohol. When he was a teenager, he spent 9 months in
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Wylie founded the literary agency named after himself in New York in 1980 with a $ 10,000 loan from his mother. He opened a second office in
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suggested that Wylie has since attempted to acquire the remaining copies of the collection. Wylie himself denied this allegation, describing
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