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'

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Guardian | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Crains New York | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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