From: LeonardSMa at aol.com <LeonardSMa>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:21:16 EDT

Here are some begats. When Susan Hirschman left Harper she took charge of the department at Macmillan, where her staff included Richard Jackson (later cofounder of Bradbury, then Orchard, and then DKInc) and Janet Schuluman (later in charge at Random House). Susan, of course, went on from Macmillan to found Greenwillow. Susan was succeeded at Harper as UN's second in command by Ferd Monjo (F. R. Monjo, as author). He left to take charge of the department at Coward-McCann. Elizabeth Gordon went on from Harper to work at Farrar, Straus, before returning to head Harper Junior Books, and then Hyperion children's book department. Fran Manushkin headed a children's book club at Random House before deciding to write full-time. Catherine O'Dea left UN's department to head Dutton; Mary Russell, who had been UN's nonfiction editor, went to Bobbs-Merrill. (Some of this is mentioned in a letter to Maurice Sendak, dated Aug. 25, 1966). Perhaps some of the people we've heard from who worked with UN would like to continue the list. Leonard Marcus LeonardSMa at aol.com
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