Jackie Kennedy's Third Act
Early one September morning in , a year-old woman busied herself preparing to go in for the first day of a brand-new job. She boiled an egg, saw her teenage son out the door to Collegiate School, donned a conservative gray shirt dress, and caught a taxi outside her Fifth Avenue apartment for midtown Manhattan.
Jacqueline Bouvier worked for the Washington Times-Herald as an "inquiring camera girl" prior to becoming the First Lady.
When that cab pulled up outside Madison Avenue, it looked like a riot was erupting. Every reporter and photographer in town was jostling for advantage outside the office building’s entrance, joined by a crowd for whom curiosity had edged into fixation. The woman calmly got out of the taxi and made her way into the building, which housed the New York editorial office of Viking Press.
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was reporting for her first day of paying work since , when she was an unmarried “inquiring camera girl” for the Washington Times-Herald, dating a tousled-hair congressman from Massachusetts.
“It was a circus, of course, because of who she was,” said Thomas Guinzburg,
Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jackie in the offices of Viking Press, January, (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Below are reviews from the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and praise from one of Jackie's former Doubleday colleagues, author Harriet Rubin.
"For Jackie Kennedy Onassis, the role of editor was just another version of her role as America's muse. She created the Camelot story in the JFK histories, and years later she wrought the same magic upon the books she edited. I kept wondering as I read Greg Lawrence's book what Mrs. O would have made of this delicious biography. This is a great story about a woman who had everything--men, money, power--and all she wanted was more to read. I bet she would have loved Jackie as Editor. Every book lover and fan of Jackie will be caught in its magic.
--Harriet Rubin, author, The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women and Dante in Love
WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“A fascinating window into an aspect of Jackie Kennedy Onassis that few of us know.” —USA Today
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. Jackie as Editor is the first book to focus exclusively on this remarkable woman’s editorial career.
At the age of forty-six, Jacket went to work for the first time in twenty-two years. Greg Lawrence, who had three of his books edited by Jackie, draws from interviews with more than of her former collaborators and acquaintances to examine one of the twentieth century’s most enduring subjects of fascination through a new angle. Over the last third of her life, Jackie shepherded more than a hundred books through the increasingly corporate halls of Viking and Doubleday, publishing authors as diverse as Diana Vreeland, Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Bill Moyers, Dorothy West, Naguib Mahfouz, and ev
A recent editing project, , with author Johannes Krane. Childhood Denied: A Hologcaust Childhood.
Available on Amazon. Also published in Dutch in with the title, De oorlog die mijn ouders niet hoorden (The War My Parents Did Not Hear).
Greg Lawrence is the author or co-author of twelve books, including Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (St. Martin’s Press / Thomas Dunne Books); Colored Lights, co-written with legendary Broadway composers John Kander and Fred Ebb (Faber and Faber, ); Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins (Putnam-Penguin, ); and the New York Times bestselling memoir co-written with ballerina Gelsey Kirkland, Dancing On My Grave (Doubleday and Berkley). That book was edited by Jacqueline Onassis, as was the sequel, The Shape of Love (Doubleday and Berkley, ). Mr. Lawrence also coauthored Time Steps, an autobiography with A Chorus Line starring actress-dancer Donna McKechnie (Simon & Schuster, ), and The Jean Nidetch Story: An Autobiography (Weight Watchers International, ).
Jackie as Editor was excerpted in Vanity Fair (January, and November, ), as were Colored Lights and Dance with Demons. Color
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