Lois Wallace

Lois Wallace joined as a secretary at G.P. Putnam Sons in 1961. In 1963, she joined the Harold Ober Literary Agency as an assistant, and in 1967 moved on to the literary department of William Morris where she eventually was named co-director. While at William Morris, Wallace convinced the then little known Harvard classicist Erich Segal to convert an unproduced screenplay into his first novel, the hugely successful Love Story, adapted in the iconic 1970 film of the same name.

In 1974, Ms. Wallace founded her own agency. She represented authors like William F. Buckley, Stacy Schiff, Joan Didion, Simon Winchester, and Don DeLillo, among others.^[1]

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