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Patricia Schartle Myrer (1923–2010) was an editor, literary agent and publishing executive based in New York City. She was editor-in-chief of Appleton-Century-Crofts publishing. She eventually became president of McIntosh & Otis literary agency. She married novelist Anton Myrer in 1970. Some of the authors she represented were Mary Higgins Clark, Patricia Highsmith and Eleanor Hibbert. She retired in 1984 and died in 2010. ==Personal life== Patricia Schartle grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. Her father was a drug wholesaler. She was the youngest of seven children. In 1942, at the age of 19, she married a submarine sailor, who was killed in the Second World War six months later. After graduation from the University of North Carolina with a degree in English Literature, she moved to New York City in 1947 to start her career in publishing. While working as a literary agent, she divided her time between an apartment in Brooklyn Heights and a farmhouse in the Catskills. Schartle initially met novelist Anton Myrer in 1957 and became his literary agent.〔 She is credited with helping him shape three of his novels into best-sellers: ''The Big War'', ''The Last Convertible'' and ''Once an Eagle''. She is also credited with selling the movie rights of ''The Big War'' (which was made into the 1958 film, ''In Love and War'') and ''The Last Convertible'' (which was made into a TV mini-series in 1979). They got married in 1970, after which she changed her name to Patricia Schartle Myrer.〔 While working as a literary agent, she divided her time between an apartment in Brooklyn Heights and a farmhouse in the Catskills.〔 Anton Myrer died on January 19, 1996 of leukemia〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/15225/Anton_Myrer/index.aspx )〕 at the age of 73. He was survived by Patricia, his widow. The couple had no children. In March 1997, Patricia Schartle Myrer donated $25,000 to the New York Society Library in memory of her husband who had received books from the library by mail at his home in Saugerties in upstate New York. She also donated case leather-bound volumes of six of his eight novels to the library. In 1997, Patricia Schartle Myrer donated funds to the United States Army War College Foundation and the republication rights to her husband's novel ''Once An Eagle''. Patricia Schartle Myrer died in 2010 at her home in Saugerties, New York.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.tributes.com/show/Patricia-S.-Myrer-89009856 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patricia Schartle Myrer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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