When I signed up Bob Dylan to be in a book about folk singers in the early 1960’s, hardly anyone had ever heard of him. Bob would come into my office with his scruffy little newsboy cap and chubby cheeks, sit down at the typewriter and start pounding those keys, verse after verse, hammering out … [Read more...]
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Shirley MacLaine
My first job as Shirley MacLaine’s editor was to help her answer a major conceptual question – whether she should write her book as a novel or as a non-fiction memoir, like her first two books, both of which had been New York Times bestsellers. Her previous editor at another publishing house had … [Read more...]
Jerzy Kosinski
Jerzy Kosinski needed an editor to sit with him many long winter afternoons at his apartment on East 57th street in New York, to work out some ideas and fill in the details, particularly about the musical aspects of the book I edited, which was his novel, Pinball. Pinball was about a rock … [Read more...]
Andy Warhol
I worked as Andy Warhol’s editor at his famous silver foil loft, “The Factory” from 1966 to 1967 producing with him in a very collaborative creative process The Andy Warhol Index Book, a large format heavily designed book with special foldout and pop-up features, photos, audio recordings, and … [Read more...]
Clive Cussler
Passion, authenticity, discipline, self-confidence, modesty, decency, professionalism – Clive was an ideal author to work with. He was open to changes in the plot, line editing, deletions and additions, but he also had a very good idea of his own strengths and purpose. Cussler was an expert … [Read more...]
Hunter S. Thompson
Shortly after we published Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in Rolling Stone magazine, we commissioned Hunter to cover the 1972 presidential campaign for us in both a series of articles for Rolling Stone and in a full-scale book for our company Straight Arrow. Thus began my long and difficult … [Read more...]
Toni Morrison
When I met Toni Morrison, she had a big Afro and two toddlers, the cutest little boys, who appeared as print media models to supplement her income as an editor at a textbook publishing company. Claude Brown introduced me to Toni, who had been his professor at Howard University. She was living in … [Read more...]
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