Dee Brown’s elegiac story of the Native American’s war with the white man, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, was the number one New York Times best-seller for weeks, and has sold millions of copies all over the world since its first publication in 1970. When we worked together in 1968, Dee was known … [Read more...]
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Oscar Acosta
Oscar was the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson’s “Samoan attorney”, an important character in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A Mexican-American lawyer, who accompanied Thompson on several memorable adventures, he was the personification of Gonzo – a fearless, reckless, extravagant guy with a … [Read more...]
Michele Borba
Michele Borba is a franchise author who has built a reputation and increasing readership over many books that are related, on the same topic (character building in child development) for the same market (parents and teachers). I’ve published six parenting books by Michele. In each case, we’ve … [Read more...]
Richard Kadison and Theresa DiGeronimo
College of the Overwhelmed is an example of how a lot of successful books get put together. I wanted to publish a book at Jossey-Bass/Wiley for our parenting list on the emotional problems of students away from home at college for the first time. I knew there were serious headline-making problems … [Read more...]
Claude Brown
In 1964 I started a new job at the Macmillan Company, my first as a full-fledged editor, with my first little office, really just a cubbyhole, a stall with shoulder high partitions. Under the desk, however, I found a big old dusty grocery box with about 1600 scruffy, smudged, and dog-eared pages. It … [Read more...]
Michael Gurian
Michael and I began working together on The Prince and the King, about sons, fathers and male development, then went on to the landmark publication The Wonder of Boys, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The Wonder of Boys launched the boy’s movement, a nationwide discussion about the … [Read more...]
Tom Robbins
As a successful writer with large and steady following, Tom Robbins had the leverage to stipulate in his contract the unusual provision that his editor would accompany him on three holidays to resorts of his choice in order to discuss and edit the work in progress, which turned out to be Jitterbug … [Read more...]
Robert Ludlum
I gave Robert Ludlum a contract for his first book The Scarlatti Inheritance in 1967 in my capacity as Mystery Editor for the Macmillan Company. At the time he was working out of Teaneck New Jersey as a radio announcer and voiceover actor. That very rough manuscript took a great deal of work but … [Read more...]
Earnest Tidyman
In 1965 I was the editor at the Macmillan company responsible for publishing one new hardcover mystery ever month. This was back in the days when any mystery published would automatically sell 4000 copies to libraries, so there was no way to lose money on this. In any case, I quickly became bored … [Read more...]
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