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About the Author

Betsy Lerner has worked as an editor at Houghton Mifflin, Ballantine, Simon & Schuster, and was most recently executive editor at Doubleday. She began her editing career working for literary journals, including the Minetta Review and The Paris Review, and co-founded the magazine Big Wednesday. She has been awarded the Tony Godwin Fellowship and was selected as a Jerusalem Book Fair fellow. A published poet, she is currently a literary agent at the Gernert Company. She is married to John Donatich, publisher of Basic Books.

Praise for The Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers…

a riveting safari through the wilds of the writer's brain, as well as an honest and unpatronizing guide to publishing from every angle. (Newsday)