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for fellow students and supplying them, illegally, with alcohol. When he was a teenager, he spent 9 months in
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Wylie founded the literary agency named after himself in New York in 1980 with a $ 10,000 loan from his mother. He opened a second office in
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suggested that Wylie has since attempted to acquire the remaining copies of the collection. Wylie himself denied this allegation, describing
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