Helen Brann, an acclaimed literary agent who began her career in 1963 working part-time for James Oliver Brown, moved to the Sterling Lord Agency in 1968 and launched the Helen Brann Agency in 1974, died November 30. She was 82. Her clients included Julian Barnes, Richard Brautigan, Gerald Clarke, Nora Johnson, Daniel Yergin, Ingrid Thoft, Chuck Scarborough, Rod McKuen, Barbara Leaming, William Wright, Stephen Sondheim, Robert B. Parker and Maya Angelou.
