A literary executor is a person with decision-making power in respect of a literary estate.
He is one of the executors of Wittgenstein's literary estate.
Her father formally appointed her executrix of his literary and personal estate.
He is the grandson of the great man and since the 1980s has been in sole control of his grandfather's literary estate.
The subsequent handling of the literary estate (Nachlass, to use the academic term) has attracted some controversy.
Porter died in 1980 and his mother became one of the trustees of Porter's literary estate.
He edited her diaries for publication and is now the executor of her literary estate.
Stephen Vincent, poet, editor, and artist, is the executor of her literary estate.
It now represents more than 700 clients and literary estates.
I am of the view that he is looking for ways to rearrange himself, forming a prestigious literary estate.