Betsy Lerner
Author of The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers
About the Author
Betsy Lerner is the author of The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers and Food and Loathing: A Lament.
Works by Betsy Lerner
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- Birthdate
- 20th Century
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Pelham, New York, USA - Education
- Columbia University (MFA|Poetry)
- Occupations
- Editor ( at Houghton Mifflin ∙ Ballantine ∙ Simon & Schuster )
Executive editor (at Doubleday)
Agent ( The Gernert Company)
partner (Dunow Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency) - Organizations
- The Gernert Company
Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency - Awards and honors
- an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and was one of PEN’s Emerging Writers in 1987. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors Under 35.
Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Award - Short biography
- Betsy Lerner worked as an editor for 16 years at major trade publishers including Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin and Executive Editor at Doubleday. She mostly works with non-fiction writers in the areas of science, psychology, history, cultural studies, biography, current events, memoir and the hard to categorize. Lerner was the recipient of the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and is the author of Food & Loathing and The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers. Her blog on publishing can be found on www.betsylerner.com. --http://dclagency.com/agents.html
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- Works
- 3
- Members
- 1,438
- Popularity
- #17,883
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 56
- ISBNs
- 29
- Languages
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I really enjoyed this book overall, though there is some profanity, including God's name used in vain. This is just unprofessional. Sex was also mentioned a ridiculous number of times, considering the book is about writing. Lerner claims "analogies between sex and writing are unavoidable." Are they really, though? I think not.
The author also states that writing is about saving your soul. I found this to be a bit dramatic, not to mention untrue. (Because only God can save one's soul.)
But it was really fun to see publishing through the lens of an editor-turned-agent, and reading this made me so happy to be a part of the book world!
It was also a fun surprise to learn that Lerner worked with [a:Lucy Grealy|57229|Lucy Grealy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1383238381p2/57229.jpg] on her memoir [b:Autobiography of a Face|534255|Autobiography of a Face|Lucy Grealy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386921470l/534255._SY75_.jpg|95778], a book I just finished earlier this month!… (more)