List of American copy editors

Main article: Copy editing

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

This is a list of some notable current and former American copy editors.

American copy editors

• Lois Bryan Adams – editor, Michigan Farmer
• Margaret L. Bailey – editor and proprietor, The Philanthropist; editor, The Youth's Monthly Visitor and The National Era
• Catharine Webb Barber – editor, Madison Visitor and Southern Literary Companion; editor and proprietor, Miss Barber's Weekly
• Melvin L. Barnet – copy editor, The New York Times
• Josephine Cushman Bateham – editor, ladies department, Ohio Cultivator
• Emma Lee Benedict – editorial staff, New York School Journal; managing editor, Scientific Temperance Journal
• Tosh Berman
• Theodore M. Bernstein – former editor of The New York Times;[1] author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage
• Anna Braden – editor, Presbyterian Visitor
• Florence Anderson Clark – co-editor, The Kentucky People
• William G. Connolly – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage;[2] member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
• Harriet L. Cramer – editor and publisher, The Evening Wisconsin
• Nannie Webb Curtis – editor, Texas White Ribbon, the official organ of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union
• Josephine Donovan
• Benjamin Dreyer – copy chief, Random House
• Mary Fels – editor, The Public: A Journal of Democracy
• Jessie Forsyth – editor, The Temperance Brotherhood, The Massachusetts Templar, International Good Templar, and The Dawn
• Ella M. George – editor, Pennsylvania W.C.T.U. Bulletin
• Hugh Hefner – worked at Fortune magazine as a copy editor before founding Playboy magazine[3]
• Annabel Morris Holvey – editor, The Bulletin (Pennsylvania); assistant editor, The People
• Corinne Stocker Horton – society editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Liv Mammone — editor of Uma Dwivedi’s poetry collection They Called her Goddess; we Named her Girl, the speculative fiction series Margins and Murmurations by author and activist, Otter Lieffe, and the literary press Game Over Books[4][5][6]
• Annie Virginia McCracken  – proprietor and editor of The Pine Forest Echo[7]
• John McIntyre – assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun;[8] a past president of the American Copy Editors Society; author of the blog You Don't Say of The Baltimore Sun
• Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore – dramatic editor and musical editor, Los Angeles Times
• Mary Norris (copy editor)
• Patricia T. O'Conner
• Eleanor Gould Packard
• Elizabeth Fry Page – associate editor, American Homes and Taylor-Trotwood Magazine
• Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins – editor, A True Republic
• Alice Hobbins Porter – editor, Chicago Inter Ocean
• Anna Rankin Riggs  – founder, editor, Oregon White Ribbon
• Pam Robinson – co-founder and first president of the American Copy Editors Society[9]
• Allan M. Siegal – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage;[10] retired
• Lura Eugenie Brown Smith – editor, Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph; co-editor and owner, Northwestern Freemason; associate and literary editor, The Masonic Tribune
• Jennie O. Starkey – journalist, editor, Detroit Free Press
• Jane Agnes Stewart – associate editor, The Union Signal; editor, Oak and Ivy Leaf and Young Women
• Susie Forrest Swift – editor, All the World, the international organ of the Salvation Army
• Sarah Katherine Taylor – editor, The Little Christian, All Nations Monthly, and Bible Faith Mission Standard
• Bill Walsh – copy editor for the Washington Post, he also authored three books about the profession of copy editing and ran a website focused upon copy editing titled "The Slot".[11]
• Alice Willard – editor, Times (Loup City, Nebraska); managing editor, Woman's Signal Budget (London)

See also

• ACES: The Society for Editing
• Lists of Americans
• Proofreading

References

1. "TM. Bernstein Dies; Language Authority And Ex‐Times Editor". The New York Times. June 28, 1979. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
2. Carla D. Bass, C.U. (2019). Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More. Edition 2. Gatekeeper Press. p. appendix G. ISBN 978-0-9975930-3-7. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
3. Balswick, J.O.; Balswick, J.K. (2007). The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home. Baker Publishing Group. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-8010-3249-3. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
4. "Staff". GAME OVER BOOKS. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
5. "THEY CALLED HER GODDESS (we named her girl) | Uma Dwivedi". dancing girl press & studio. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
6. "Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
7. Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "McCRACKEN, Mrs. Annie Virginia". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 484–85.
8. Collins, R.F. (2013). Editing Across Media: Content and Process for Print and Online Publication. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-4766-0203-5. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
9. Harrigan, J.T.; Dunlap, K.B. (2003). The Editorial Eye. Bedford/St. Martin's. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-312-15270-3. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
10. Copy Editor. Copy Editor. 2002. p. 123. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
11. "Bill Walsh, copy editor and witty authority on language, dies at 55". Washington Post. March 15, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2020.

External links

• Report from the 1997 ACES Conference
• Executive board of the American Copy Editors Society