Professional/Personal Overview
Editor; Mgr. of Intellectual Capital; Rockefeller Foundation grant recipient (2012)
Work Info
Expertise
Copy Editor
27 Years
Editor
22 Years
Fact-Checker
27 Years
Specialty
Business (general)
10 Years
Arts & Humanities
27 Years
Books & Literature
27 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
27 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
W. W. Norton (11+), Scribner (11+), St. Martin's Press (11+), Little, Brown (6-10), Penguin (6-10), Michael Lewis (THE BIG SHORT) (3-5), HarperCollins (3-5), Robert K. Massie, Pulitzer Prize - Biography (1-2), Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize (1-2), Edmund Phelps, Nobel Prize - Economics (1-2)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Harvard Medical School (3-5), Whitney Museum (3-5), World Bank (1-2), Yahoo! (1-2), Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1-2), VSA Partners (design firm, Obama campaign) (1-2), IBM (1-2)
Other Work History
Author of A GENIUS FOR LIVING: THE LIFE OF FRIEDA LAWRENCE (HarperCollins; a New York Times Notable Book); contributor to the following books: THE NEW ANNOTATED DRACULA (Leslie S. Klinger, ed.), THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES (Leslie S. Klinger, ed.; winner of the Edgar Award in Criticism and Biography), THE CONCISE DICTIONARY OF SCIENTIFIC BIOGRAPHY (winner of the Dartmouth Medal). Reviewer for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Book Review.
Computer Skills
Word, Windows XP
Awards
Recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant (2012)
Associations
Authors Guild
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time.
Work Samples
(Little, Brown , 4/17/2012)
53 pieces by 67 writers: "...what economics does best"--Abhijit V. Banerjee
(by Dana Priest and William Arkin )
(by Cat Patrick / Little, Brown )
Rights to Paramount; movie will feature TRUE GRIT star Hailee Steinfeld
Writing Sample
(Little, Brown , 4/17/2012)
With contributions by Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Paul Volcker, Scott Turow, Bethany McLean, John Cassidy, Gillian Tett, Martin Wolf, Peter Diamond, Emmanuel Saez, Nouriel Roubini, and more than 50 others
(Huffington Post , 10/4/2010)
Book review/essay
(HarperCollins )
Biography of the wife of D. H. Lawrence. A New York Times Notable book.
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
