Name the Doubleday book editor who, when asked whether she would be attending the company sales conference in Dallas, replied dryly, “I think I’ll pass on that one.”
The answer is after the JUMP.
The answer is after the JUMP.
The answer is Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who found great joy in her mid-life career as a book editor. William Kuhn, in Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, called her a "book geisha" who "cultivated the art of charming and pleasing people who wrote for her, trying to sense what they wanted from her so she could provide it and they would produce their best work.”
Jim Fitzgerald, the Doubleday colleague who inquired whether she would be going to Dallas for the conference, cited her wry response as an example not of bitterness but of the self-deprecating humor that endeared her to her co-workers. In fact, Onassis didn’t shy away from Dallas altogether. One of the books she edited, The Democratic Forest, included a photograph by William Eggleston of the Texas School Depository, the infamous warehouse from which Lee Harvey Oswald gate-crashed his way into history. She edited the photo and the related text with stoic professionalism.
Jim Fitzgerald, the Doubleday colleague who inquired whether she would be going to Dallas for the conference, cited her wry response as an example not of bitterness but of the self-deprecating humor that endeared her to her co-workers. In fact, Onassis didn’t shy away from Dallas altogether. One of the books she edited, The Democratic Forest, included a photograph by William Eggleston of the Texas School Depository, the infamous warehouse from which Lee Harvey Oswald gate-crashed his way into history. She edited the photo and the related text with stoic professionalism.
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