As his longtime friend and, indeed, literary executor, I was clearly the person to turn to.
He served as the literary executor for the works of Rebecca West.
The position of literary executor has more to it than the simple monetary aspect, though.
On the death of her husband in May 1956 Jungmann became his literary executor.
She also collaborated with him on at least two stories, and served as his literary executor.
After the death of Rhees in 1989 he took over his position as literary executor.
How did you come to be Frame's literary executor?
But it's not the nepotism that got me the job; I'm the only family member she ever appointed as literary executor.
The cause was cancer, said his literary executor, Christopher Kelly.
She was also close to Michael Oakeshott and later became his literary executor.