Word: prashker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest the gratuitous poke at Betty Prashker of Doubleday, an editor of taste, skill and compassion. Editors, the best editors, do more than undangle participles and unsplit infinitives...
...Prashker is there when I need her, not there when I don't. She perceives the indescribable pain of researching and writing books, and, in my case, has been of immeasurable help in producing two Bestsellers. I need her and love...
Simon & Schuster, went over the manuscript before it was sent to Betty Prashker, a top editor at Doubleday, which publishes Talese. Prashker says that Talese was not thin-skinned about taking editorial advice, but adds enigmatically: "Grammar is not etched in marble." Perhaps not; neither should it be polymorphously perverse...
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