Reminiscences of Elizabeth Gile : oral history, 1956

Biographical Note

Editor

Scope and Contents

McGraw-Hill from 1929: editing process before formation of McGraw-Hill Book Company's editorial department; Martin Foss as President of Book Company; copy editing procedures; freelance copy editors and proofreaders; manuscript checking; decentralization of editorial department, 1948; Oak Ridge book project; work with new printers during World War II; unified system of styling; editing schedules

Subjects

• Book industries and trade.
• Books--Format.
• Editing.
• Gile, Elizabeth, 1901-
• Interviews.
• McGraw-Hill, inc.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Women in the book industries and trade--Interviews.