Anne tolstoy wallach biography
Anne Tolstoi Wallach was an American advertising executive and author.
Anne Tolstoi Wallach (February 19, – June 27, ) was an American advertising executive and author..
Anne Tolstoi Wallach
American advertising executive and author (1929–2018)
Anne Tolstoi Wallach (February 19, 1929 – June 27, 2018) was an American advertising executive and author.
Following her graduation from the Dalton School and Radcliffe College, she began working for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson as a copy editor, and later a vice president and creative director. She worked as a vice president and creative supervisor for Grey Advertising and as a vice president for Cunningham & Walsh Inc.
Her debut novel, Women's Work, focused on a female advertising executive and received an uncommonly large advance of $850,000 in 1981 (equivalent to $2.85 million in 2023).
Wallach wrote a nonfiction book, Paper Dolls — How to Find, Recognize, Buy, Collect and Sell the Cutouts of Two Centuries (1982), and two subsequent novels, Private Scores (1988) and Trials (1996).
Early life
Wallach was born Anne Tolstoi on February 19, 1929, in Manhattan, New Yor