Janice Harayda
Jul 16, 2024

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What's all the more remarkable, by today's standards, is that Commins also edited poets: e.g. Williams and Stephen Spender and children's books, including Horton Hatches the Egg.

Book editing is much more specialized today. You have editors who do only children's books and those who focus on poetry or literary fiction. Commins was a wonder.

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Janice Harayda
Janice Harayda

Written by Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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