Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Virginia Kidd (June 2, 1921-January 11, 2003) was an American literary agent, writer and editor, particularly influential in science fiction and related fields. She represented some of science fiction's most important authors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, R.A. Lafferty, Anne McCaffrey, and Gene Wolfe. Wolfe modeled Ann Schindler, a character in his 1990 novel Castleview, in large part on Kidd. Kidd was born Mildred Virginia Kidd in the Germantown district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest daughter of Charles Kidd, a printer, and Zetta Daisy Whorley (both originally Southerners). She had polio at the age of 2, and was paralyzed for a year from the chest down.