# Toni Strassman

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**Toni Strassman** (1895–1984) was an [authors' representative](/source/Literary_agent) based in New York City. Her clients included [Charles Harris (Brick) Garrigues](/source/Charles_Harris_Garrigues),[1] [John and Martha Clayton](/source/John_Bell_Clayton_and_Martha_Clayton),[1] [William Goyen](/source/William_Goyen),[2] [Harry Mark Petrakis](/source/Harry_Mark_Petrakis)[3] and [Friderike Zweig](/source/Friderike_von_Winternitz), the first wife of [Stefan Zweig](/source/Stefan_Zweig).[3]

She was born as Fanny Strassman on October 28, 1895.[4] Of delicate health as a young woman, she spent most of 1926 and 1927 in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico before returning to New York. At that time she wanted to be a dancer or actress, and in 1929 she was an understudy with the [Provincetown Players](/source/Provincetown_Players) in [Greenwich Village](/source/Greenwich_Village), but the group disbanded before her show was mounted.[1]

Strassman then worked for [Viking Press](/source/Viking_Press); she changed her name to Toni in 1936, shortly before she became a full-time literary agent.[1] She died in New York City on April 15, 1988.[4]

Her papers, which include correspondence, memoranda, contracts, royalty statements, manuscripts, diaries, daybooks and photographs, are in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University).[3]

## References

1. [George Garrigues, *He Usually Lived With a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman,* 2006, Quail Creek Press, Los Angeles](https://books.google.com/books?id=wOkeZu6MVvwC&dq=He+Usually+Lives+With+a+Female&pg=PT7) ISBN 0-9634830-1-3

1. [Darlene Harbour Unruh, "Selected Letters From a Writer's Life," *The Mississippi Quarterly,* December 22, 1995](https://web.archive.org/web/20121105144948/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18373997.html)

1. [Archives and Manuscript Collections Relating to Women in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/womenstudies/archiv1.html)

1. [Social Security Death Index, cited at www.footnote.com](http://www.footnote.com/page/5642416_toni_strassman/)

## External links

- [Finding aid to Toni Strassman papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.](https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079376)

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