Toni Lopopolo is a literary agent whose book publishing career began in 1970 in the publicity department of Bantam Books, where she helped publicize authors such as Philip Roth, Barbara Cartland, Isaac Asimov and Louis L'Amour. St. Martin's Press made an offer she could not refuse, so Lopopol became executive editor there from 1981 to 1990 and published Hot Flashes by Barbara Raskin, Rich and Famous by Kate Coscarelli, Elsa Lanchester, Myself by Elsa Lanchester, On the Other Hand: A Life Story by Fay Wray and many more titles.