Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Jessie R. FausetJessie R. FausetBorn 27 Apr 1882As literary editor of The Crisis from 1919 to 1926, Fauset helped bring writers including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer to readers. That publishing work makes a useful companion to her own novels: she was an author exercising judgement about other authors, not simply an assistant to a movement.…0i
  2. 2Dorothy VaughanDorothy VaughanBorn 20 Sept 1910Vaughan's leadership at Langley's West Area Computing unit joined mathematical expertise to advocacy. She recommended women for demanding assignments and pressed for colleagues to receive appropriate promotions and pay. Those decisions mattered in a workplace structured by racial and gender…0i
  3. 3Nadia BoulangerNadia BoulangerBorn 16 Sept 1887Aaron Copland's surviving tribute to Boulanger makes this more than a famous teacher's list of famous pupils. His study with her in France became a formative relationship, while her wider teaching brought musicians with very different ambitions into sustained contact with technique and musical…0i
  4. 4Thelma SchoonmakerThelma SchoonmakerBorn 3 Jan 1940The editing of Raging Bull offers a clear way to see Schoonmaker's collaboration with Martin Scorsese. Images, performances and sound become a particular rhythm through her work at the cutting table. Her creative decisions help give the performances and photographed material their finished form.…0i
  5. 5Judith JonesJudith JonesBorn 10 Mar 1924Jones brought a knowledgeable home cook's questions to editing Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Working with Julia Child and her co-authors Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, she helped make a demanding manuscript usable for its intended American reader. The authors supplied the culinary…0i
  6. 6Ursula NordstromUrsula NordstromNordstrom's relationship with Maurice Sendak combined editorial judgement with sustained encouragement and defence of challenging work. In the Night Kitchen is a revealing example: supporting the artist also meant standing behind a book that adults tried to censor. Sendak's own foundation places…0
  7. 7Maxwell PerkinsMaxwell PerkinsBorn 20 Sept 1884The manuscripts and corrected proofs of The Great Gatsby make Perkins's role unusually tangible. Fitzgerald kept revising, while his exchanges with the Scribner's editor helped carry the book towards publication. Even its title was part of that conversation. The surviving documents show the author…0i
  8. 8Robert GottliebRobert GottliebBorn 29 Apr 1931The publication of Catch-22 shows how editorial commitment can extend beyond reading a manuscript. Gottlieb championed Joseph Heller's novel and worked on its route to readers, with colleagues including Nina Bourne contributing to that effort. Its change from the working title Catch-18 is one…0i
  9. 9Toni MorrisonToni MorrisonBorn 18 Feb 1931Read Morrison's editorial work alongside her novels, especially her support for Gayl Jones's Corregidora. At Random House she argued for the book, challenged passages she thought needed work and helped bring an unconventional writer before readers. Her editorial effort backed Jones's distinctive…0i
  10. 10Teo MaceroTeo MaceroBorn 30 Oct 1925On Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, the recorded performance and the finished album are different stages of the creative work. Macero's tape editing, undertaken with Davis and engineer Ray Moore, helped shape long sessions into the record listeners know. The musicians' playing remains indispensable; the…0i