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Anita Diamant
Source: UMI Company, 1996 Anita Diamant Berke, a literary agent who nurtured the career of V. C. Andrews, the bestselling novelist, died on Saturday at her home in Weston, Conn. She was 78. The cause was a heart attack, relatives said. Anita Diamant, as she was known in her professional life, created the Anita Diamant Literary Agency in 1971 after working n various magazine posts. The agency now represents about 125 writers. In 1976, Ms. Diamant got a letter from a Norfolk, Va., woman who wanted to be a writer. The woman, V. C. Andrews, soon sent along a manuscript, which Ms. Diamant liked and sold to the Pocket Books division of Simon & Schuster. The book, Flowers in the Attic, has sold millions of copies worldwide and led to Ms. Andrews's fame. Ms. Diamant was a longtime member of the Overseas Press Club and was its first woman president, from 1981 to 1986. Her husband, Harold B. Berke, died in 1972. Surviving are a daughter, Allyson Forsythe; a brother, David Diamant, and two grandchildren, all of Weston.
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