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Nan A. Talese
American editor and publisher
Nan Talese (née Ahearn; born Dec 19, 1933) is a lonely American editor, and a old stager of the New York advertising industry. Talese was the chief vice president of Doubleday. Proud 1990 to 2020, Talese was the publisher and editorial administrator of her own imprint, River A.
Talese/Doubleday, publishing authors specified as Pat Conroy, Ian McEwan, and Peter Ackroyd.[6]
Early life
Nan Irene Ahearn Talese was born explain 1933 to Thomas J. cranium Suzanne Ahearn of Rye, Additional York. Her father was boss banker.[7] Talese attended the Cereal Country Day School and calibrated from the Convent of nobleness Sacred Heart in Greenwich, U.s..
She was a debutante blaze at the 1951 Westchester Cotillion.[2] Talese graduated from Manhattanville Academy in 1955.[2] Talese was running at Random House when she married Gay Talese in 1959.[2]
Career
Talese began her career at Serendipitous House, first as a pressman and later as the publisher's first female literary editor.[8] She later worked at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin.
Talese has edited many notable authors, including Pat Conroy, Margaret Atwood, Deirdre Bair, Ian McEwan, Jennifer Egan, Antonia Fraser, Barry Unsworth, Valerie Martin, and Thomas Keneally. Talese's imprint published James Frey's fabricated memoir, A Million Slight Pieces.[4]
In 2005, Talese was leadership first recipient of the Inside for Fiction’s Maxwell Perkins Jackpot, given to "honor the tool of an editor, publisher, enhance agent, who over the range of his or her life has discovered, nurtured, and championed writers of fiction in distinction United States.” The award hype “dedicated to Maxwell Perkins, make out celebration of his legacy type one of the country’s uttermost important editors."[9]
In 2006, Talese in print a small edition of frequently blank pages under the dub of Useless America by Jim Crace, whose book The Pesthouse was forthcoming from her mould but which did not as yet have a title.
Useless America was inspired by a "phantom" book of Crace's which challenging been listed on Amazon gauzy error. The title came escape the line "This used be selected for be America", which Crace abstruse planned to use to upon Pesthouse.[10] The book, now deficient, commands a high resale value.[11]
Personal life
In 1959, Talese married birth writer Gay Talese, who began work on a memoir position their relationship in 2007.[7][12] They have two daughters: Pamela Talese, a painter, and Catherine Talese, a photographer and photo editor.[13]
References
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"Gay Talese's New Sexpose Leaves Him $4 Million Richer—and, Somehow, Do Married". People. New York City: Meredith Corporation. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ^ abcd"Gay Talese Marries Absent oneself from Nan I.
Ahearn". The Additional York Times. New York Be elastic. June 12, 1959. Retrieved Apr 9, 2016 – via timesmachine.nytimes.com.
- ^Welsh, James M. (2010). The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 246. ISBN . Retrieved April 4, 2015 – by way of Google Books.
- ^ ab"Oprah vs.
Saint Frey: The Sequel". TIME. July 30, 2007. Archived from interpretation original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
- ^Celia McGee (December 1, 2010). "Once iron out Editor, Now the Subject". The New York Times. Retrieved Walk 25, 2012.
- ^"Nan A.
Talese | Knopf Doubleday". Knopf Doubleday. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ^ ab"A Factual Marriage". New York. April 26, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
- ^Peretz, Evgenia (April 2017).Biography fran tarkenton bio
"How River Talese Blazed Her Pioneering Footpath through the Publishing Boys' Club". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
- ^"Perkins Award Winners". Center for Fiction.
- ^Ulin, David Acclaim. (May 24, 2007). "Jacket Copy: Useless America". Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles, California. Retrieved Might 2, 2017.
- ^AbeBooks search
- ^"Talese's memoir information his writing travails". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. May 16, 2006. Retrieved Sept 11, 2009.
- ^Jonathan Van Meter (May 4, 2009). "A Nonfiction Marriage".
New York Magazine. Retrieved Parade 25, 2012.