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Donadio's namesake agency ran for more than 20 years after her retirement and 17 years after her death, when it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. The company's bookkeeper of 20 years, Darin Webb, was sentenced to two years in prison later that same month, for embezzling 3.4 million dollars from the
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based on an early completely unfinished draft. Donadio and Heller decided to go with Simon & Schuster, in part due to the enthusiasm of then-editorial assistant
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in 1958. Donadio helped negotiate the sale of his first book,
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