History
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A LITTLE BACKGROUND: I grew up in New York City, the daughter of a columnist for the New York Post and a psychiatrist. After college, I married and moved to New Haven, and the Yale University Press, creating their lists in psychiatry, psychology, and child development. In 1979 I moved to Basic Books, and for the next 25 years was an editor and publishing executive at New York publishing houses. My interest in psychology led me to publish Alice Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child), Mary Pipher (Reviving Ophelia) Antonio Damasio (Descartes’ Error), and Rachel Simmons (Odd Girl Out). I also edited outstanding nonfiction including Praying for Sheetrock, by Melissa Fay Greene, Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger, and Woe is I, by Patricia O’Conner.
