 It marked the end of her acting career.While working for J. Walter Thompson as a copywriter, she answered an advertisement for a position as a literary agent.She was hired by "A. D. Peters, a legendary agent who showed her the ropes", taught her how to negotiate and gave her responsibility for selling serialization and newspaper rights for the agency's early group of clients, including Arthur Koestler, S. J. Perelman, Rebecca West and Tom Wolfe.