Sterling Lord, agent who championed Jack Kerouac and more, dies at 102
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Sterling Lord, a literary agent who among other triumphs worked for years to find a publisher for Jack Kerouac's On the Road, has died. He had just turned 102.
Lord died on Saturday in a nursing home in Ocala, Florida, according to his daughter, Rebecca Lord.
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