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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the former First Lady's nineteen-year editorial career draws on interviews with dozens of former collaborators to reveal her literary talents and the creative fulfillment she experienced during a historically relevant period in the publishing industry.
Author
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: Robert Giroux (1914-2008), editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace and Company and later of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and John Berryman (1914-1972), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Shakespearean scholar who also received a National Book Award and a Bollingen Prize for Poetry. From their...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life chronicles the evolving media coverage of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, tracing interpretations of her public persona, from campaign wife, first lady, and revered widow to a jet setter, career woman, and, ultimately, treasured national icon"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An intimate biography of legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath"--
"When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's newly opened Paris office in 1949, she was tasked with wading through manuscripts in the slush pile until one caught her eye. She read the book in one sitting,...
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