Books I Have Worked On as a Copy Editor, Proofreader, and/or Researcher
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE: 2000-2003, 1990-99
HEALTH, BEAUTY, AND EXERCISE: 2000-2002, 1988-99
GENERAL NONFICTION: 2000-2003, 1986-99
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE: 2000-2003, 1986-99
FICTION AND POETRY: 2000-2002, 1988-99
CHILDREN'S BOOKS: 2000-2003, 1999
TEXTBOOKS: 1986-97
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
2003
Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Trip (from the author of Investment Biker, a trip around the world with reflections on local economic conditions) by Jim Rogers, Random House (copyedited) (390 manuscript pages, including some tables)
2002
Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick by Muriel Siebert with Aimee Lee Ball, Free Press (proofread) (307 book pages)
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The Motley Fool Personal Finance Workbook: Your Foolproof Guide to Organizing Cash and Building Wealth by David and Tom Gardner, with Robert Brokamp and Dayana Yochim, Simon & Schuster (copyedited) (about 550 manuscript pages)
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2001
The Coming Collapse of China by Gordon Chang, Random House (copyedited)
2000
NetWorth: Successful Investing in the Companies That Will Prevail Through Internet Booms and Busts (They're Not Always the Ones You Expect) by Stephen E. Frank, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
Winning with the Market: Beat the Traders and Brokers in Good Times and Bad by Douglas R. Sease, Free Press (proofread)
30 Days to a Happy Employee: How a Simple Program of Acknowledgment Can Build Trust and Loyalty at Work by Dottie Bruce Gandy, Fireside (copyedited)
The Power of Positive Thinking in Business: 10 Traits for Maximum Results by Scott W. Ventrella, Free Press (copyedited)
Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success by Sheila W. Wellington and Catalyst Inc., with Betty Spence, Random House (copyedited)
Deleteyourbroker.com: Using the Internet to Beat the Pros on Wall Street by Christopher Byron, Simon & Schuster (did fact checking on Internet)
It Takes a Prophet to Make a Profit: 15 Trends That Are Reshaping American Business by C. Britt Beemer and Robert L. Shook, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
Wow the Dow! The Complete Guide to Teaching Your Kids How to Invest in the Stock Market by Pat Smith and Lynn Roney, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
Right on the Money: Taking Control of Your Personal Finances by Chris Farrell, Villard (proofread)
Executive Instinct: Managing the Human Animal in the Information Age by Nigel Nicholson, Crown (copyedited)
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (a cautionary tale for futures traders) by Roger Lowenstein, Random House (copyedited)
Money from Thin Air: The Story of Craig McCaw, the Visionary Who Invented the Cell Phone Industry, and His Next Billion-Dollar Idea by Casey Corr, Times Books (proofread)
Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management (think business leaders' problems today are new? think again; illustrated with quotations from the Bard) by John O. Whitney and Tina Packer, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
HEALTH, BEAUTY, AND EXERCISE
2002
The Get with the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health by Bob Greene, Simon & Schuster (copyedited) (209 manuscript pages)
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Wear and Tear: Stop the Pain and Put the Spring Back in Your Body by Dr. Bob Arnot, Simon & Schuster (copyedited) (399 manuscript pages)
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2001
Energy Breakthrough: Jump-Start Your Weight Loss and Feel Great by Sarah, The Duchess of York, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
Get Strong! Body by Jake's Guide to Building Confidence, Muscles and a Great Future for Teenage Guys by Jake Steinfeld, Fireside (copyedited)
Buff Brides: The Complete Guide to Getting Shape and Looking Great for Your Wedding Day by Sue Fleming, Villard (copyedited)
The American Yoga Association's Beginner's Manual by Alice Christensen, Fireside (proofread)
2000
Beauty: The New Basics (encyclopedia of beauty, with a sound scientific basis) by Rona Berg, Workman Publishing (proofread)
Does This Make Me Look Fat? The Definitive Rules for Dressing Thin for Every Height, Size, and Shape by Leah Feldon, Random House (proofread)
GENERAL NONFICTION
2003
Bill Clinton: An American Journey, Part 1: Great Expectations (Bill Clinton's story up to his run for the White House) by Nigel Hamilton, Random House (copyedited) (1,306 manuscript pages)
All in Good Time: A Memoir (the son of the composer Arthur Schwartz and creator of radio's The American Songbook tells his story) by Jonathan Schwartz, Random House (copyedited) (406 manuscript pages)
This was a well-written and well-typed manuscript that required minimal editing and correction.
The Tante Marie's Cooking School Cookbook: More Than 250 Recipes for the Passionate Home Cook by Mary Risley, Simon and Schuster (checked second-pass pages (396 book pages)
The Last Ridge: The Story of the 10th Mountain Division in World War II (how the division trained in the American West and Alaska and then were sent to mountain combat in Italy) by McKay Jenkins, Random House (copyedited) (338 manuscript pages)
This was a well-written and well-typed manuscript that required minimal editing and correction.
Life al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian-American Family by Gina Cascone, Atria (proofread) (187 book pages)
The Americas: A Hemispheric History by Felipe Fernÿndez Armesto, Atria (proofread) (223 book pages)
A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant, Knopf (copyedited) (371 manuscript pages)
This was a well-written manuscript with only minor typographical errors.
2002
The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers by Garden Editors of The New York Times/Leslie Land, Workman (checked second-pass pages (checked second-pass pages (396 book pages)
Diffusion of Innovations (How do trends spread? Find out here!), 5th ed., by Everett M. Rogers, Free Press (copyedited) (1,022 manuscript pages)
The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of 13 American Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann, Random House (copyedited) (330 manuscript pages)
This manuscript was riddled with typographical errors and contained many instances of misuse of words, incorrect prepositions, and so on.
Reading New York (literary ruminations on authors who have been associated with New York City: Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg), 5th ed., by John Tytell, Knopf (proofread) (320 book pages)
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson, Knopf (proofread) (331 book pages)
This was a well-written and well-edited book and was a straightforward proofreading job.
Literary Occasions: Essays (a collection of previously published essays, plus the author's Nobel Prize acceptance speech) by V. S. Naipaul, Knopf (proofread) (331 book pages)
Seven Ages of Paris (Paris--and France--through the centuries) by Alistair Horne, Knopf (proofread) (445 book pages)
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Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story by Stanley Weintraub (Free Press) (proofread) (313 book pages)
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Con Men: Classic Forgers, Scammers, Liars, and Scoundrels from the Archives of 60 Minutes by 60 Minutes (Simon & Schuster) (copyedited) (151 manuscript pages)
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The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack, Random House (copyedited) (576 manuscript pages)
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The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (Will smallpox come back? And if it does, will we be prepared for it?) by Richard Preston, Random House (fact checked) (approximately 400 manuscript pages)
For this book, I did fact checking on the Internet because the person who was copyediting the book didn't have Internet access.
Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th (about a man from Cornwall, England, who became a soldier and later died in the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001) by James B. Stewart, Simon & Schuster (proofread) (307 book pages)
This book was well written and well edited and was a straightforward proofreading job.
The Gate (memoir of a French ethnographer who was captured and imprisoned in Cambodia in 1971 and then was in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh when all foreigners were evicted by the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge regime in 1975) by François Bizot, Knopf (copyedited) (287 manuscript pages)
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By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen, Random House (copyedited) (about 600 manuscript pages)
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Katharine Graham's Washington (a collection of writings from various sources), edited by Katharine Graham, Knopf (proofread previously published material and copyedited new commentary) (about 1,400 manuscript pages)
With a Happy Eye But ... : America and the World, 1997-2002 (a collection of articles previously published by the author) by George F. Will, Simon & Schuster (proofread previously published material and copyedited new commentary) (about 600 manuscript pages)
Flowers, White House Style: More Than 125 Arrangements by the Former White House Chief Floral Decorator by Dottie Temple and Stan Finegold, Fireside (copyedited) (172 manuscript pages and more than 100 photos)
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The Parker Wine Buyer's Guide by Robert Parker, Simon & Schuster (copyedited and fact checked Italian wine sections only; proofread several of the French and other wine sections) (about 250 book pages)
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A World Turned Over: A Killer Tornado and the Lives It Changed Forever by Lorian Hemingway, Simon & Schuster (copyedited) (about 250 manuscript pages)
Lifemaps: A Step-by-Step Method for Simplifying 101 of Life's Most Overwhelming Projects by Michael Antoniak, Fireside (copyedited) (540 manuscript pages; 104 chapters with 21 codes each)
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, Simon & Schuster (proofread the revised and updated edition and copyedited additional material) (between printed book pages and additional manuscript pages, about 450 pages)
2001
The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery by James Adovasio and Jake Page, Random House (copyedited)
Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Knopf (copyedited)
More, Now, Again: A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
Digital Biology: How Nature Is Transforming Our Technology and Our Lives by Peter J. Bentley, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
The Bountiful Container: How to Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey, Workman (proofread)
Closing the Gap (strategies for bringing parents and teens together) by Jay McGraw, Fireside (copyedited)
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril (by the executive editor and associate editor of The Washington Post) by Leonard Downie and Robert G. Kaiser, Knopf (proofread)
The Letters of Arturo Toscanini, edited by Harvey Sachs, Knopf (copyedited)
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig, Random House (proofread)
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William J. Broad, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters: Beaton, Capote, Dalí, Picasso, Freud, Warhol, and More by John Richardson, Random House (proofread)
Casualties of Rock: Behind the Music (how various rock stars lived and died) by Quinton Skinner, Pocket Books (proofread)
Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years by Barbara Leaming, Free Press (proofread)
The Pocket Parent (hints and tips for parents) by Gail Reichlin and Caroline Winkler, Workman Publishing (proofread)
Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire (history of Venice) by Garry Wills, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
That's Outside My Boat: Letting Go of What You Can't Control (how to let go of the little things in life that aren't worth brooding about) by Charlie Jones and Kim Doren, Andrews McMeel (copyedited)
Stanley H. Kaplan: Test Pilot: How I Broke Testing Barriers for Millions of Students and Caused a Sonic Boom in the Business of Education by Stanley H. Kaplan with Anne Ferris, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford, Random House (proofread)
The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream by Kirkpatrick Sale, Free Press (proofread)
The Tale of the Rose: The Passion That Inspired The Little Prince (memoir by the widow of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Random House (copyedited translation)
Making Waves: The 50 Greatest Women in Radio and Television by American Women in Radio & Television, edited by Jean Zevnik, Andrews McMeel (copyedited)
2000
Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Diane Jacobs, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
Digitopia: The Look of the New Digital You (reflections on how our lives are being changed by the Internet and other media) by Richard DeGrandpre, Random House (copyedited)
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (do plants adapt themselves to us, or we to them?) by Michael Pollan, Random House (copyedited)
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier (music and more) by Thad Carhart, Random House (proofread)
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans (about the discovery of what may be the oldest North American human fossil find) by James C. Chatters, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
Unwise Passions: A True Story of a Remarkable Woman--and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-Century America (the story of Nancy Randolph of Virginia and the stories that followed her) by Alan Pell Crawford, Simon & Schuster (proofread)
The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence by Dinesh D'Souza, Free Press (copyedited)
The Renaissance: A Short History by Paul Johnson, Modern Library (proofread)
Across an Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time (about eighteenth-century stage actress Charlotte Cushman and her circle) by Julia Markus, Knopf (proofread)
Fame at Last: Who Was Who According to the New York Times Obituaries (short biographies of the United States' best-known people) by John Ball and Jill Jonnes, Andrews McMeel (copyedited) (To see the author's kudo for Lynn's work on this book, click here.)
The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of Henrietta and Her Foreign Correspondent (the story of a peripatetic cat--and, incidentally, her family) by Christopher S. Wren, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
Hats in the Ring: An Illustrated History of American Presidential Campaigns by Evan Cornog and Richard Whelan, Random House (copyedited)
Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms by Diane Ravitch, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
2003
Thriving with Heart Disease: A Unique Program for Living Happier, Healthier, Longer by Wayne M. Sotile, Ph.D., Free Press (copyedited) (406 book pages)
This was a well-written and well-typed manuscript. It was a design-heavy book that involved making up a very long and detailed design memo.
2002
The Myth of Laziness (maybe when you think your kids are lazy there's an underlying reason; a psychologist explains) by Mel Levine, M.D., Fireside (proofread)
2001
The Incontinence Solution: Answers for Women of All Ages by William Parker, M.D., Amy Rosenman, M.D., and Rachel Parker, Fireside (proofread)
Dr. Ian Smith's Guide to Medical Websites by Ian K. Smith, AtRandom (copyedited; checked Internet URLs and names of companies and agencies mentioned)
Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health by Nicholas Wade, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
2000
I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body (the experiences of a nurse-practitioner in a women's clinic; interesting, informative, and poetic) by Cortney Davis, Random House (copyedited)
Baby E.R.: The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles by Edward Humes, Simon & Schuster (copyedited)
Where Is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury (sad, touching, yet occasionally funny account of a man's fight back from brain injury) by Cathy Crimmins, Knopf (copyedited)
FICTION AND POETRY
2002
Typhoon and Other Stories (reprint; four stories: "Typhoon," "Amy Foster," "Falk," and "Tomorrow") by Joseph Conrad, Modern Library (proofread) (277 book pages)
Inferno (reprint; translation and notes, including quotes from several different languages, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) by Dante Alighieri, Modern Library (proofread) (400 book pages)
Triple Take by Y. Blak Moore, Villard/Strivers Row (proofread) (233 book pages)
That Faith, That Trust, That Love by Jamellah Ellis, Villard (copyedited) (488 manuscript pages)
This was a very well prepared manuscript with only minor typographical errors.
Summer in Tuscany by Elizabeth Adler, St. Martin's Press (fact checked) (354 book pages)
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2001
Fathers and Sons (reprint) by Ivan Turgenev, Modern Library (proofread)
Under Western Eyes (reprint)by Joseph Conrad, Modern Library (proofread)
2000
The Glass Palace (saga of families in Burma and India, spanning the twentieth century) by Amitav Ghosh, Random House (proofead)
Killing Time: A Novel of the Future by Caleb Carr, Random House (copyedited)
Monstruary (artistic and literary adventures in Europe by a Spanish author) by Julián Ríos, translated by Edith Grossman, Knopf (copyedited translation)
What a Woman Must Do: A Novel (novel of the 1950s American Midwest) by Faith Sullivan, Random House (proofread)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
2001
Break a Leg! The Kids' Guide to Acting and Stagecraft by Lise Friedman, Workman Publishing (proofread)
2000
The Quick and the Dead (the adventures of three teenage girls in the American Southwest; a novel) by Joy Williams, Knopf (copyedited)
Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (a novel) by Wendelin Van Draanen, Knopf (proofread)
Storm Warriors (the story of a boy in North Carolina's Outer Banks in the late 19th century who wants to become a sea rescue worker; a novel) by Elisa Carbone, Knopf (proofread)
TEXTBOOKS
(None in 1998-2002; to see books worked on from 1986 to 1997, click here.)
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