70 who have made a difference
The 15 women who met at Sherwood's Book Store in lower Manhattan on October 29, 1917, would be proud of the organization they founded that night and whose 70th anniversary we are celebrating. They would be proud to know that the Women's National Book Association has not only survived but has grown to a national organization encompassing all the diverse branches of the book world, with membership open to men and women.
This diversity makes WNBA unique and has enabled our members to create networks geographically as well as professionally. It also allows us to join with other groups to promote books and reading at national events such as the programs at the Modern Language Association, the Pannell award ceremony at the American Booksellers Association Convention, and the annual breakfast at the American Library Association Conference.
It is in this spirit that we decided to celebrate our 70th anniversary, and the Year of the Reader, by saluting 70 book women who have made a difference. We invited the entire book world to nominate women who are committed, dedicated, creative, and catalytic. In response to our ads in the trade press, hundreds of names of outstanding women poured in, which were then reviewed by our judges, who ultimately chose the 70 awardees listed in this booklet. This list confirms the range of the roles and responsibilities of today's book women.
We are delighted to present The WNBA Book Women Award to these 70 women who have made a difference. They represent all that is special about the book world, an "industry" which despite the changing world of business and technology still remains one of professionals dedicated to connecting the words and creativity of authors to the minds and lives of readers.
There seems no better way to celebrate 70 years of WNBA in 1987 than to honor these women who are the reason WNBA was founded and remains so significant today, and will continue to do so into the next century.
Cathy Rentschler
Introduction
Bringing the work of authors together with readers, the object of this organization, could not have a more important purpose in the current state of American culture. As an author I am, of course, an interested party, but that is not the only reason for my interest. The wider dissemination of books is equivalent to the process of civilization- by which I do not mean "information and entertainment," the phrase all too often used to describe the subject matter of the printed word. True, one obtains useful or scholarly information from books, but that is not their civilizing effect. Rather, it is, as I think, the enjoyment of literature, one of the three great arts of human creativity- music, the pictorial, and literature- and the greatest of the three, if I may be allowed to make that claim. It is the greatest because it enriches life, allows us to get out of ourselves and the often petty concerns of daily living, extends horizons, opens doors to new scenes and circumstances, excites the imagination, transforms the banal, acquaints us with beauty, in short gives pleasure and knowledge and evokes creativity. These are the factors that together build civilization, and books are their source and instrumentality in which women from the beginning and especially in our century have always had a sustaining role.
Seventy years ago WNBA established itself to honor and recognize women's work in the world of books, and throughout this century's turbulent decades it has steadily promoted its purpose, supporting and bringing to public attention the contribution of women writers, booksellers, librarians, editors, and publishers; these are the three categories- creators, producers, and disseminators- that have made the book industry so flourishing that it is now the object of corporate raiders and merger hounds.
While we could not live without books, the question is, Can they arrest the slide of our society into decline? A historian, to justify her function, should have some capacity to judge the character and direction of her own time. In our time the smell of decline is unmistakable- in public office we accept the second rate, the corrupt, and the incompetent without a murmur. No matter how crooked or stupid the performance, the American public does not seem to get angry. We are told every day that the economy, with its upside-down balance of trade and wild national deficit, is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and disaster. Books, no matter how wise and rational, will not, I fear, save us, but perhaps women, the other component of WNBA, might. Women on the whole are more sensible and practical than men, and it is male governance, the product of all those high powered business schools, that has brought the economy to its current shambles. It might help if we sold the Harvard Business School to Japan. That would quickly take care of Japan and at the same time give Harvard badly needed space for the University Library, which, like all libraries today, must find a place to put the expanding number of books. It might also put women, who are not generally the products of business school, in charge of the trade balance and the budget. If we could turn these matters and associated problems over to women, conditional on a large enough representation in all branches of government- the Congress, the Administration, and the Courts- to reflect their proportion in the population, then indeed we might have an improvement.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Helen Barrow Barrow was the first woman to become a vice president in charge of production at a major publishing house - Simon & Schuster in 1967. In a second career as a designer of handsome editions, Barrow continues to serve as a role model to another generation of women in publishing.
Ann K. Beneduce "Editing children's books is not really a game for children," writes Ann Beneduce, a distinguished editor in this field since 1960. "It is a serious, multifaceted, demanding profession." Beneduce, active on the international children's publishing scene, has also worked closely with UNICEF on their book publication program.
Rusty Browder As the proprietor of The Children's Book Shop, which she opened in 1977 in Brookline, Massachusetts, Browder was active in promoting "first books" and reading aloud to very young children. Since selling her store in 1985, she has been actively involved with the 400 member bookstores of the New England Booksellers Association.
Lorraine A. Brown Dr. Brown discovered and for 13 years has been working with the papers of the Federal Theatre Project of the depression era W.P.A. Through her work, materials have been found and analyzed concerning Black theater, radio plays, women in the F.T.P. labor plays, and other subjects. She is working with theatrical groups across the country to get the Federal Theatre plays produced.
Marie Dutton Brown As a senior editor at Doubleday, a bookstore manager, and now a literary agent, Brown has been a source of inspiration for many minority men and women in publishing today. Of her new business she says, "I'm Harlem-based and my office is in my home." With clients like Ed Bradley and Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, she is succeeding in her new venture.
Joan Catapano As the women's studies acquisition editor, Catapano has built one of the strongest university press list in this field in the country. She also handles acquisitions in Black studies, film, folklore, literary and cultural theory, and history. Catapano serves on the Equal Opportunity Committee of the Association of American University Presses.
Bebe Cole Cole was the first woman president of that long-time male bastion the Association of Book Travelers. As both a bookseller and a sales representative, she has been a tireless advocate of books and women in publishing for many years.
Dorothy Crouch Formerly Vice President and General Manager of Warner Books, Crouch is an entrepreneur who has broken ground in the international world of distribution and rights. Crouch International supports publishers in various areas of their operations, including international sales, foreign licensing, and manufacturing.
Josephine Riss Fang Dr. Fang is an international figure in the fields of modern publishing, international and comparative librarianship, and conservation management. She is author of the International Guide to Library, Archival and Information Science Associations.
Yen-Tsai Feng Born in Peking, Dr. Feng holds degrees from such diverse institutions as the University of Shanghai and Columbia University School of Library Science. Recently awarded an honorary degree from Simmons College, she was praised as "an effective, intelligent, and gracious exemplar of librarianship."
Marjorie Fletcher A poet and prose writer, Fletcher co-founded Alice James Books, a unique writers' cooperative publishing house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With an emphasis on poetry by women, Alice James has issued 60 titles of literary distinction and typographical excellence since its formation in 1973.
Elizabeth A. Geiser Geiser's awareness of the need for people trained in the processes of publishing led her to organize the University of Denver Publishing Institute, a four-week summer course. She sustained the course each year, adding talent to the industry's sometimes accidental entrants.
Helen Gentry Gentry, a master printer and one of the few women in this field, introduced the principles of fine design to children's books. She designed Harper's edition of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and was designer par excellence of Holiday House books for 25 years.
Ruth Graves Whether she's boating between villages on the Alaskan tundra, buttonholing legislators, or talking to the 86,000 volunteers who work in the RIF program, Graves' single-minded purpose is to get children hooked on books. Under her leadership, RIF has sponsored more than 10,000 projects in all 50 states.
Judye Groner With Madeline Wikler, Groner created a children's Passover Haggadah and then founded a company to publish it. Kar-Ben's list of books on Jewish themes now totals more than 60 titles, a dozen of them written by Groner and illustrated by Wikler. Their books have made serious Jewish learning accessible to all children.
Doris Grumbach Doris Grumbach, author of seven books, including The Magician's Girl, The Ladies, and The Missing Person, has been since 1984 the book critic for National Public Radio. She is a former literary editor of The New Republic and writes reviews and critical articles for magazines and newspapers.
Lois Spice Haig Haig is owner of Book Associates, a consulting firm specializing in multi-media publishing and is co-founder of the new International Multimedia Publishing Institute, which stimulates cooperative education and training in the media professions. She has worked with the United States Information Agency and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Diana Haskell An active keeper of modern culture, Haskell works closely with authors, donors, scholars, and volunteers in collecting, organizing, and using personal and literary papers. Among the authors represented in the Newberry collection are Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Ben Hecht, and Katherine Mansfield.
Elizabeth Haslam Haslam, with her late husband, built one of the largest bookstores in Florida and also started the Southeastern Booksellers Association. In her years of tireless work, she created nationally known, innovative programs for the children's department of her store.
Martha A. Hayes Residents of Roosevelt Island in New York City credit Hayes with the existence and health of their community library. Without her, the community would have been deprived of a great books discussion club, a film festival, a poetry club, story hours, and a 40,000-book collection that makes the library the main cultural center of the island.
Patricia Holt Among Holt's activities to bring a sense of community to West Coast book people was the founding of West Coast Publisher, a newsletter, and the West Coast column in Publishers Weekly. She has greatly expanded the space for book reviews and news in the San Francisco Chronicle. Her weekly column and reviews connect all involved with the printed word in Northern California.
Florence Howe As founder of one of the first women's presses, Howe has often been called the mother of women's studies. Now at the City University of New York, the press has published 150 titles, most of then still in print, that have anticipated and continue to forecast the direction of the women's studies movement.
Erica G. Kanter Under Kanter's leadership, HBJ's School Department has grown to be the largest educational publisher worldwide. Her knowledge of the educational needs of children and her extensive experience in publishing have enabled her to make a significant contribution to the development of this market.
Mimi Kayden Kayden came to Dutton after working in children's books and library promotion at many other fine houses. She has been active in the Children's Book Council, American Library Association, American Booksellers Association, and Association of American Publishers. Kayden has written Celebrating Children's Books.
Patricia Miller King As director of the country's foremost library on the history of women in the United States, which contains 30,000 volumes covering all aspects of women's social and intellectual life, Dr. King has directed many projects to expand the library's holdings and make them more accessible to scholars and writers.
Joyce Knauer Knauer, with her husband, owns and runs one of the country's largest bookstores with a philosophy based on trust, growth, and bringing people and books together. Active in the support of First Amendment rights, she is a board member of the American Booksellers Association.
Nancy Larrick One of the founders of the International Reading Association, Dr. Larrick is widely known as the author of A Parent's Guide to Children's Reading, which has sold over a million copies. She has edited 15 anthologies of poetry for young readers, 5 of which became mass market paperbacks.
Jean Lebow For the 20 years Lebow spent with the giant New England Mobile Book Fair, she was indefatigable in helping sales reps, new and seasoned, and in matching customers to the proper book. Knowledgeable, courteous, exceptionally hardworking, she was a definite conduit between book/author and customer/reader.
Lee K. Levy For more than 40 years, Levy has been an active book woman - as owner of a New York City bookstore, employee of a large California wholesaler, and sales rep for half a dozen publishers. She founded and has devoted much of the last decade to nurturing the Los Angeles chapter of WNBA whose scholarship fund, which she initiated, helps young women pursue a career in publishing.
Barbara J. Lucas Now a packager of children's books, Lucas got her start in publishing at Harper & Row as assistant to the legendary Ursula Nordstrom. She was Editor-in-Chief at Putnam and later at HBJ. She founded and continues to direct the Vassar College Institute of Publishing and Writing, where each summer she teaches others to write for children.
Crystal E. McNally McNally dedicated more than 35 years of her life to working as the Director of Library Media Services for the Wichita, Kansas, public schools. In that capacity she set a high standard for media services and received national recognition for her commitment to library excellence and fostering public awareness of reading education.
Jane Manthorne In addition to her many responsibilities as Assistant Director and Clerk of the Corporation, Manthorne edits BPL's publications and reviews books. What she does without renumeration - grant writing, desktop publishing, ghostwriting, editing, and proofreading - is known only to her friends.
Esther Margolis Margolis founded Newmarket Press after 17 years at Bantam, where, as an unusual and even visionary marketer, she pioneered the publicity tours for authors that helped propel the paperback revolution. Responsible for recruiting and training many women who now hold major positions in the book industry, she built her career in publishing without losing sight of its highest goals.
Kate Mattes On a Friday the 13th, Mattes opened her shop dedicated to the deadly embrace in a charming old house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mattes is currently writing The Spenser Cookbook with Robert Parker. Kate's Mystery Books has become the center for the New England mystery community, for both writers and readers.
Margaret Melcher Melcher has had a lifelong commitment to publishing, both on her own and in collaboration with her late husband, Daniel Melcher. Most recently, she has lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, working as a writer, editor, and publisher. She is the former editor of the School Library Journal (R.R. Bowker Co.).
Jean F. Mercier Mecier served as Children's Book Review Editor at PW for 14 years. Her tenure was a mission to establish children's book publishing as a vital part of the industry and to promote the highest quality of books for young people. She is a charter member of the National Book Critic's Circle.
Bessie Boehm Moore More than 60 years ago in rural Kansas, Dr. Moore saw the role that books could play in the lives of people. She set out to increase funding and support for libraries. Today, at 84, Moore is a dynamo who regularly attends dawn-to-dusk commission meetings and conferences on libraries.
Sunny B. Murphy For three decades, Murphy has been providing innovative and dynamic library service to the U.S. Army and to Koreans. She is a primary source of information for scholars on Korea. In 1986 she was awarded the Commander's Medal for Meritorious Service.
Anna Marie Muskelly Muskelly's career has garnered her many honors as an editor and as a role model for other women in publishing. She is the current president of the New York chapter of WNBA, and a past president and founding member of Black Women in Publishing. She has conducted workshops and career programs for inner city children.
Carol A. Nemeyer No longer shore-bound, Nemeyer is inventor of the "Books Aboard" flag in her retirement career as "librarian-at-sea." During her active career, she made extensive contributions to the book world as President of the American Library Association, and Senior Associate of the Association of American Publishers.
Carol W. Orr One of a handful of women directors of university presses, Orr has been a strong force for the advancement of women in the field. She was the founder and first president of Women in Scholarly Publishing and is currently President of the Association of American University Presses, the first woman to hold this position.
Sandra K. Paul An industrial psychologist and Certified Systems Professional, Paul is responsible for the implementation of industry-wide standards for information science and computer-to-computer communication between the various segments of the book industry. She is Associate Publisher of Electronic Publishing Business and is a consultant to libraries and publishers.
Jan Gregg Polacheck The lifelong vision that shaped Polacheck's 54-year career refuted the all too prevalent notion that young adult librarianship is simply a frill. Among her innovations is a program of regular, but changing, teen reviewers who provide their peers with reviews of young adult books.
Joan M. Ripley Two-time president of the American Booksellers Association, Ripley was the first woman to serve actively in that role. One of the nation's foremost booksellers, through her 10 years of teaching at the ABA Booksellers Schools, she has devoted countless hours to helping other booksellers.
Barbara Rollock Through lectures, articles and books, Rollock has taught a generation of librarians to expand their services, respond to children in deeper ways, and promote recognition of the dignity of various ethnic groups. She is currently working on a biographical dictionary of Black authors and illustrators.
Sharon Roth As Senior Buyer at Marshall Field's in Chicago, Roth's dedication and management style have inspired many contemporary booksellers. A former officer of WNBA's Chicago chapter, and of the Board of Directors of the American Booksellers Association (1981-1984), she has actively pursued her commitment to the bookselling profession.
Judith L. Rothman As an editor with half a dozen major publishers, Rothman has consistently signed and developed textbooks that have become standards in their fields. A true believer in college publishing as a viable career path for women, she has a unique brand of attention, combining a professional style with an unusually warm and comfortable manner.
Ann Sagran Sagran has committed her life to developing literary awareness throughout her community. As a full-time volunteer, she has created innovative reading and book study programs in the Beverly Hills and Santa Monica library systems, and is credited with starting the Senior Adult Book Review Program to meet the intellectual needs of retired citizens in Southern California.
Shirley Sarris Using the marketing experience she gained at R. R. Bowker, John Wiley and Franklin Watts, Sarris started her own consulting firm. She has found time to teach in universities and industry-related workshops, to donate her efforts to book industry causes, and to act as model/mentor to new people in the industry.
Isabel Schon Dr. Schon, who specializes in providing library services to Hispanic children, has written a number of books about Spanish literature for young readers and about English-language books relating to Hispanic people and cultures. She has conducted numerous research studies to determine the effects of books and reading on Hispanic and Anglo students.
Adele M. Schweid Schweid, with her husband, operates one of Nashville's oldest and most successful independent bookstores, with three local branches. She reviews books on radio and television and lectures widely. In 1985 the Schweids were winners of the ABA Haslam Award for Excellence in Bookselling.
Anita Silvey Silvey assumed editorial direction of this distinguished periodical about books and reading for children in 1985. Previously, she had worked for Little, Brown and Houghton Mifflin, as well as The Horn Book, and co-founded a literary magazine, Boston Review. She moderates a National Public Radio program on children's reading.
Margaret Chase Smith As congresswoman, senator, and author of a courageous "Declaration of Conscience" during the McCarthy era, Senator Smith has had a distinguished public career followed by an extremely active retirement. Her home has become a million-dollar library for serious scholarship.
Eleanor Touhey Smith A New York City librarian and literacy advocate, Smith has been active with the Literacy Volunteers of America, serving on the national board as well as with state chapters. She published Psychic People (Morrow) in 1968 and is working on another book about psychic personalities.
Louisa Solano When she was 15, Solano first entered the Grolier Book Shop and intuitively knew that someday she would be its owner. That day came 17 years later, and today she is proprietor of an internationally famous store that deals only in poetry, is a meeting place for poets and readers and an information center that is open 11 hours a day, seven days a week.
Roberta Soolman Soolman, a former school teacher, is the director and torch-bearer for Literacy Volunteers of America in Massachusetts. Personable, tireless, and eloquent, she speaks to groups everywhere, recruiting and then training tutors to help fight illiteracy.
Frances Steloff Throughout her career Frances Steloff, who started her legendary shop, "a cluttered paradise for bibliophiles," in 1920, has been known as an avid promoter of the avant-garde and a fierce foe of censorship. At 99, she is working with her biographer and is still involved with the bookshop.
Vivian Stephens As creator/editor of Candlelight/Ecstasy Romances and Harlequin Romances, Stephens "was single-handedly responsible for modernizing the hero, heroine, and plot line of the traditional romance genre novels." Founder of Romance Writers of America, she is currently packaging women's fiction books.
Peggy Sullivan Although she is now an administrator, Dr. Sullivan says, "I keep in touch with the world of books in as many ways as possible. " As a librarian, she was involved in projects in all 50 states and on assignments to China, Guam, Australia, the Philippines, Canada, and Kenya. Sullivan is past president of the American Library Association.
Nan A. Talese Talese, the distinguished top editor of this Boston publishing house and head of its New York office, has published such authors as President Carter and Rosalynn Carter, Judith Rossner (August), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale), and Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides).
Gioia Timpanelli Timpanelli is a living representative of the oral tradition of passing on legends, myths, and stories through generations by the telling of tales. She is the winner of two Emmy awards, has told stories in museums and libraries across the country, and teaches her craft in colleges and community centers.
Helen Venn For 30 years, "Doylie" Venn ran the country's first publishing program. She single-handedly made it into a tough, dynamic six-week course where young men and women could study under top people in the field. The publishing world is filled with her former students.
Jeanne Vestal One of the unsung heroines of children's book publishing, Vestal has been courageous in her choice of materials, works productively with authors, and has recruited and educated innumerable young women for a career in publishing.
Margaret S. Warden As a library trustee, a Montana state senator, and a member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Warden has repeatedly worked on behalf of the book and library communities by making strategic and successful contacts in Congress, demonstrating that one person can make a difference.
Judith Welling Welling was one of the first women to become a sales representative at a major manufacturing company in the highly technical world of printing and binding. She learned her negotiating and diplomatic skills during her early careers with the State Department and as a teacher. She has also written educational materials.
Madeline Wikler With Judye Groner, Wikler created a children's Passover Haggadah and then founded a company to publish it. Kar-Ben's list of books on Jewish themes now totals more than 60 titles, a dozen of them written by Groner and illustrated by Wikler. Their books have made serious Jewish learning accessible to all children.
Maria Cimino Cimino presided over the New York Public Library's Central Children's Room in its heyday, tirelessly helping not only children but many authors and illustrators. An extraordinary storyteller, she had special influence in developing the library's collection of foreign children's books.
Karen Hunter Hunter has been involved in the academic book industry as purchaser (Cornell University Libraries), wholesaler (Baker & Taylor), and publisher of clinical medical journals (Elsevier). As director of strategic planning, she charted the direction for Elsevier's science division of 20 companies in nine countries, which publish 600 books and 650 journals per year.
Cynthia Miller Miller has been Editor and Marketing Director of Catholic University and Wesleyan University presses. She has brought this invaluable background to her just-completed presidency of Women in Scholarly Publishing and to her current term as Chair of the Education and Training Committee of the American Association of University Presses.
Margie J. Thomas Thomas has served Alaska's librarians and library users for 20 years - as a military post librarian, academic reference librarian, consultant to the public library, and school librarian. She created the "Talk to an Astronaut" teleconference program for school children.
Autumn 1917: Women across America awaited the Senate's vote on the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which, when ratified in 1920 by two-thirds of the state legislatures, would give women suffrage. A group of 15 women booksellers- excluded from membership in the all-male Bookseller's League- met in Sherwood's Book Store, 19 John Street in downtown New York, to form the Women's National Book Association. Its unique characteristic was that membership was open to women in all facets of the book world- publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, illustrators, agents, production people- the only criterion being that part of their income must come from books. Seventy years later, with eight chapters spanning the country from Boston to San Francisco and with Corresponding Members in nearly all 50 states, the WNBA continues to champion the role of women in the world of words. Now membership is open to men who subscribe to the Association's goals and to women in all the media. During these years, WNBA has run seminars on book selling techniques, published two books, led in-service courses for teachers on children's books, sponsored book and author luncheons and dinners, cooperated on local book fairs, been active as a non-governmental organization member at the United Nations, entertained visiting bookwomen from abroad, and surveyed the status of women in publishing. The first issue of The Bookwoman, the organization's official publication, appeared in 1936 through the generosity of Constance Lindsay Skinner, author, lecturer, and active member of WNBA. Since 1940 The Women's National Book Association Award (formerly the Constance Lindsay Skinner Award) has been given to a bookwoman for "meritorious work" in her special field. During the 1960's, the Amy Loveman National Award for the best personal library collected by an undergraduate in an American college was a major project. The Lucile Michaels Pannell Award, which promoted the creative use of books with children, was established in 1982 with funds bequeathed by the late Mrs. Pannell, who was a founder of the Chicago chapter of the WNBA. This award is given annually at the American Booksellers Association (now BEA) convention. Believing that books have power, WNBA has made it possible for people engaged in various book activities to help broaden their part in the book world, and to know one another as individuals with common problems, aspirations, and goals. Currently there are chapters in Binghamton, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, and Washington. (Note, Dallas has established a chapter since this was written.) Women today have more opportunity to make change and move ahead than ever before. The Women's National Book Association is the organization in which they can come together, define goals, develop leadership, further communication, and organize activities to benefit women. Seventy years after our foremothers struggled for the right to vote and learned how successful organized women can be, WNBA celebrates its continuous commitment to improving the status, image, and role of women in the world of books.
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1917-1987
and the Year of the Reader
President's Statement
President, 1987-1988
70 Women Who Have Made a Difference
President, HB Production Services, Inc.
Consulting Editor
Executive Director, New England Booksellers Association
Federal Theatre Project, George Mason University
Literary Agent / Editorial Consultant
Senior Sponsoring Editor, Indiana University Press
National Accounts Manager, Doubleday & Co. Inc.
President, Crouch International Ltd.
Professor of Library and Information Science, Graduate School, Simmons College
Roy E. Larsen Librarian, Harvard College
President, Alice James Books
Senior Vice President / Business Development, Gale Research Company
Founder, Holiday House
President, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF)
President/Kar-Ben Copies, Inc.
Author, Critic
Multimedia Publishing Consultant
Curator of Modern Manuscripts, The Newberry Library
President, Haslam's Book Store, Inc.
Freelance Writer and Textbook Consultant
Book Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher and President, The Feminist Press
Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, School Department Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Vice President and Director of Children's Book Marketing, E.P. Dutton
Director, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
Co-owner and Manager, Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, Colorado
Writer, Editor
Retired Manager, New England Mobile Book Fair
Literary Agent, Publishing Consultant
Co-Producer, Lucas-Evans Books
Retired Director of Library Media Services, Whichita Public Schools
Assistant Director, Boston Public Library
President, Newmarket Press
Owner, Kate's Mystery Books
Publisher, Libros en Venta
Contributor, Publishers Weekly
Vice Chairman, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
Library Director, U.S. Army Library Service, Korea
Senior Editor, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, Inc.
Former Associate Librarian of Congress (National Programs)
Director, University of Tennessee Press
President, SKP Associates
Retired Young Adult Librarian, Massillon, Ohio
President, The Second Story Bookshop, Chappaqua, New York
Former Coordinator of Children's Services, New York Public Library
Senior Buyer, Book Department, Marshall Field's
Editor-in-Chief, College Division, Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Volunteer, Santa Monica Library
President, Sarris Bookmarketing Service
Professor of Library Science, Arizona State University
Co-owner, Mills BookStores, Inc.
Editor-in-Chief, The Horn Book Magazine
Margaret Chase Smith, Library Center, Northwood Institute
Retired, New York City Public Librarian
Owner, Grolier Book Shop
Director, Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts
Founder, Gotham Book Mart, New York
Editor/Book Producer
Dean, College of Professional Studies, Northern Illinois University
Vice President, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Professional Storyteller
Former Director, Radclife Publishing Procedures Course
Vice President and Editorial Director, Franklin Watts, Inc.
Chair, Great Falls Public Library Foundation
Senior Sales Representative, Book Manufacturing, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co.
Vice President, Kar-Ben Copies, Inc.
Retired Librarian, New York Public Library
Vice President, Elsevier Science Publishers
Marketing Manager, The Brookings Institution Press
Librarian, West Valley High School, Fairbanks, Alaska