Line Editing and Copyediting
Selected New York Times and National Best Sellers, Award Winners, and Critically Acclaimed
Copyediting unless otherwise indicated. These were all works for hire; I make no claims to authorship.
Memoirs and Biography
Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife, S&S, 2024.
Rex Chapman, with Seth Davis, It's Hard for Me to Live with Me: A Memoir, S&S, 2024. NYT Best Seller.
Rob Henderson, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, S&S/Gallery, 2024. National Best Seller.
Stuart A. Reid, The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of CIA and a Cold War Assassination Plot, Knopf, 2023. (Cold read and review of notes.)
Richard Marx, Stories to Tell: A Memoir, S&S, 2021. National Best Seller.
Elaine Showalter, The Civil Wars of Julie Ward Howe, S&S, 2016. The Economist's Best Book of 2016.
Cookie Johnson, with Denene Miller, Believing in Magic, S&S/Howard, 2016. NYT Best Seller.
Carole Bayer Sager, They're Playing Our Song: A Memoir, S&S, 2016. NYT Best Seller.
Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, S&S/Gallery, 2015. NYT Best Seller.
Lynn Sherr, Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space, S&S, 2014. NYT Best Seller.
Dominque Moceanu, with Teri Williams, Off Balance: A Memoir, S&S/Touchstone, 2012, NYT Best Seller.
Jaycee Duggard, A Stolen Life, S&S, 2011. NYT Best Seller.
Shania Twain, From This Moment On, S&S/Atria, 2011. NYT Best Seller. (Line edit under acquiring editor's direction, with Philip Bashe.)
Rick Springfield, Late, Late at Night: A Memoir, S&S/Touchstone, 2011. NYT Best Seller.
Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, S&S/Atria, 2010. NYT Best Seller.
Apolo Ohno, with Alan Abrahamson, Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday, S&S/Atria, 2010. NYT Best Seller.
Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation, S&S/Atria, 2008. NYT Best Seller.
Daniel Tammet, Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, S&S/Free Press, 2007. NYT Best Seller.
James R. Hansen, First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong, S&S, 2005. NYT Best Seller.
Nonfiction
Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster at the Edge of Space, S&S/Avid Reader, 2024. NYT Best Seller. Cold read and review of notes.
Emmuel Acho and Noa Tishby, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew, 2024, S&S/Simon Element, 2024.
Jonathan Turley, The Indispensable Right: Freedom of Speech in an Age of Rage, S&S, 2024.
Jimmy Soni, The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, S&S, 2022. NYT Best Seller.
Tom Dyja, New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation, S&S, 2021. NYT Book Review: 100 Notable Books of 2021.
Gillian Tett, Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J. P. Morgan and How Wall Street Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created Financial Catastrophe, S&S/Free Press, 2009. NYT and Wall Street Journal best seller.
Stacy O'Brien, Wesley: The Story of a Remarkable Owl, S&S/Free Press, 2008, NYT and Los Angeles Times Best Seller.