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Robert Smith began his career at Octopus Books and went on to serve as Publishing Director at Ebury Press and Sidgwick & Jackson, where he worked with authors including Debbie Reynolds, Eartha Kitt, and Bruce Dickinson. He ran his own publishing company, Smith Gryphon Publishers, from 1990 before becoming a literary agent in 1997. Past titles from that imprint include The Diary of Jack the Ripper, which sold half a million copies worldwide. The agency works with Louisa Pritchard Associates for foreign rights and Renée Zuckerbrot Literary Agency as US co-agent.