Jackie as editor : the literary life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Greg Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawrence, Greg.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy.

Book editors--United States--Biography.

Book editors.

Editors--United States--Biography.

Editors.

United States.

Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.

Presidents' spouses.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2011.

Summary:

History remembers Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as the consummate first lady, the nation's tragic widow, the millionaire's wife, and, of course, the quintessential embodiment of elegance. Her biographers, however, skip over an equally important stage in her life: her nearly twenty-year-long career as a book editor. This book focuses exclusively on this remarkable period. At age 46, one of the most famous women in the world went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. The author, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than 125 of her former collaborators and acquaintances in the publishing world to examine one of the twentieth century's most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle: her previously untouted skill in the career she chose.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Jackie's secret garden

A special destiny

In the Russian style, by way of Paris

A tale of two houses

An office with a window

Unseen vistas and avant-gardens

Moonwalk and the power of myth

Bon courage

When life comes first

All will be well

Books published by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-298) and index.

ISBN:

9780312591939

0312591934

OCLC:

648922995