Reynolds, Paul Revere (1864-1944). American literary agent. Born in Boston, MA, Reynolds earned a BA from Harvard University in 1887 and an M.A in 1891, studying under William James. In the wake of the International Copyright Act of 1891, he became the U.S. agent for the English publisher Cassell, later undertaking similar work for other British publishers, He then began representing individual authors seeking to place fiction with magazines and book publishers, taking a ten per cent commission. Reynolds placed fiction in McClure’s Magazine when Cather was an editor there. Cather first allowed him to act as her own agent in 1916, placing “The Diamond Mine” in McClure’s. She was very pleased with the price he secured for the story, expressing “the greatest satisfaction in his conduct of affairs” (#0361). For the next decade, she allowed him to place short stories and serialize her novels in magazines, although not consistently. After the serialization of Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) in the Forum, she consistently put off his queries about what she was writing, and he was evidently surprised by the publication of “Neighbor Rosicky” in the Woman’s Home Companion (1930). Cather assured him that she still wanted to work with him, but either she herself or staff at Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., arranged magazine publication of her remaining fiction.