Remembering Alice Mayhew, Legendary Editor

On a bookshelf alongside the dining-room table, I maintain a narcissistic shrine consisting of first-edition copies of my eight books. Four of them were published by Alice Mayhew, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster who died earlier this week at the well-disguised age of 87. And those four volumes are the ones that Alice […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-06 00:28:27 UTC ]
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