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As I was crossing Boston Common.

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Every writer wants an editor. If you have an editor, it means you are getting published. Then, once you get published, you want a really good editor. I have one now--Wes Adams at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. But in the early seventies--in Boston--I didn't have an editor. Back then I was getting my creative writing degree at Emerson College and I had met Nicole Rubel, who was working on book illustration at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. We both loved children's books and so decided to collaborate. Back then there were a lot of us in Boston who were looking to impress the same three editors--Walter Lorraine at Houghton Mifflin, Emilie McLeod at Atlantic Monthly Press, and John...

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