![]() In a few months, I was very lucky to land a job as assistant to Alice Mayhew at Simon and Schuster. ![]() I began first in the subsidiary rights department at Simon and Schuster, but I always had my eye on the editorial department. And I am looking forward to passing my mother’s original hardcover Little House on the Prairie books to my own daughters.Īfter graduating from the University of Georgia in 1982 with a degree in newspaper journalism, I moved to New York to pursue a career in book publishing. I was born and raised in Georgia, and my mother’s side of the family were big readers. My grandfather died when I was too young to know him, unfortunately, but I have inherited books from his library and treasure his original hardcover editions of Hemingway and Twain. ![]() I have been an editor for more than 35 years, most of that time working for the major New York publishing companies. ![]()
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