Evarts Ziegler ’38

EVARTS ZIEGLER, Hollywood literary agent, died of cancer at his home in Pasadena, Calif., Nov. 24, 1990. Zig prepared at Lenox School. He majored in English, graduating with honors, and continued on at Princeton for his M.A. He was a member of Colonial Club.

He began his career doing literary work with theJaffe Agency in Los Angeles. During WWII he was in AntiAircraft, then in the O.S.S., rising to captain. In 1958 he founded Ziegler, Heilman & Ross, a literary talent agency which handled career management for movie directors, producers and writers, and packaged TV programs. He merged his firm with International Creative Management in 1983 and retired in 1985. Among his clients were John Dunne '54, John Sacret Young '69, William Goldman, and Mario Puzo.

He was a traveler, birdwatcher, and shellseeker. His extensive collection of modem American first editions will be sold to establish the Evarts Ziegler Scholarship Fund at Princeton. Thus his generosity with gifted people will go on forever.

He is survived by his widow, the former Maryanne Tucker, three daughters, Susan Arthur, Cynthia Ziegler, and Faith Kleveland. They have our sincere sympathy.

The Class of 1938