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A book editor is someone who has compiled a book consisting largely of works by other people, such as an anthology of stories by many authors, or who has overseen the creation of a work, such as a dictionary or encyclopedia, that is the result of many people working together.
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    Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. His reputation within the hacker culture was established when he became the maintainer of the "Jargon File". After the 1997...
  • Person, Author, Book Editor, Award Winner
    Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23 1952) is an American science fiction writer, probably best known for his award-winning Mars trilogy. His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly, and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his...
  • Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Book Editor, TV Writer, Film story contributor
    Robert Albert Bloch (April 5 1917, Chicago – September 23 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. He was the son of Raphael "Ray" Bloch (1884, Chicago-1952, Chicago), a bank cashier, and his wife Stella Loeb (1880, Attica, Indiana-1944, Milwaukee, WI), a...
  • Person, Deceased Person, Composer, Conductor, Author, Book Editor
    Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27, 1894 - December 25, 1995) was a Russia-American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author. He was born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimsky in St. Petersburg. His maternal aunt, Isabelle Vengerova, was his first...
  • Person, Deceased Person, Author, Book Editor
    William Whiston (December 9, 1667 - August 22, 1752), was as English theologian, historian, and mathematician. He is probably best known for his translation of the Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus, his A New Theory of the Earth, and his Arianism. ...
  • Person, Book Editor, Author
    Owen Flanagan, Ph.D. (born 1949) is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory,...
  • Person, Deceased Person, Author, Book Editor, Influence Node, Award Winner
    Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 - June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse career in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature departments. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the...
  • Person, Book Editor, Author, Award Winner
    Gardner Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. A subtle writer with a distinctive prose style who has mainly worked in shorter forms, he has won the...
  • Company, Publishing company, Employer, Website, Book Editor, Author, Periodical Publisher
    O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. They have achieved distinctive branding by featuring a woodcut of an...
  • Person, Film writer, Author, Book Editor, Award Winner
    Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award. Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting...
  • Person, Book Editor, Author
    Burton Watson (born 1925) is a translator of Chinese and Japanese literature. Watson was born in New York City, United States. He has taught at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto universities. His translations include The Lotus Sutra, The Vimalakirti Sutra, Chuang Tzu:...
  • Person, Film writer, Deceased Person, Author, Book Editor
    Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino on October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005), was a prolific American author and screenwriter. Though he was a successful and well-known writer using the Evan Hunter name (a name he legally adopted in 1952), he was perhaps even better...
  • Person, Author, Book Editor
    Eric Flint (born 1947) is an American alternate history and fantasy author, editor, and e-publisher. The majority of his main works are alternate history science fiction, but he also writes humorous fantasy adventures. Flint has a Master's Degree in history...
  • Person, Author, Book Editor, Company Founder, Board Member, Venture Investor, Thought Ranker
    Tim O'Reilly (Irish: Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) and a supporter of the free software and open source movements. He is widely credited with coining the term Web 2.0. O'Reilly was initially interested in...
  • Person, Author, Book Editor, Award Winner
    Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick (born Chicago, March 5, 1942), better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is a popular and prolific American science fiction author. He is executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe. Resnick attended the University of Chicago from...
  • Person, Comic Book Editor, Book Editor, Author
    Karen Berger is the editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, and one of the 1990s' most influential comic book editors. Karen Berger was born on February 26 1958. Berger majored in English literature and art history at Brooklyn College, and upon her graduation in...
  • Company, Publishing company, Employer, Organization, Periodical Publisher, Book Editor, Author
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
  • Book Editor, Person, Author, Book Character, Fictional Character
    Mormon is a prophet in The Book of Mormon after whom the book is named. According to the and the account of Joseph Smith, Jr., Mormon was the prophet-historian who engraved an abridgement of his people's history on Golden Plates. Latter Day Saint believe Mormon was a...
  • Person, Book Editor, Author, Award Winner
    Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American science fiction writer living in Australia. Dann began publishing science fiction in 1970 with the stories "Dark, Dark the Dead Star" and "Traps," both of which appeared in the Ejler Jakobsson-edited Worlds of If and...
  • Person, Book Editor, Author
    Martin Harry Greenberg (born March 11941) is a prolific American speculative fiction anthologist. Greenberg took a doctorate in Political Science in 1969, and has taught at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay since 1975. His first anthology was Political Science...
  • Company, Employer, Book Editor, Author
    Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hodder Headline. The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged fourteen, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publisher for the Congregational Union. In...
  • Company, Book Editor, Employer, Author
    Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, (Borsa Italiana:MNDI) is the second most important publishing company in Italy. Founded by the 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori in 1907 for the publishing of the magazine titled Luce!, it soon became an important publisher. It is controlled...
  • Person, Book Editor, Author
    Andrew Thomas Kuster is an American conductor, musical scholar, and performer. He works as a staff editor for the Kurt Weill Foundation in New York City. Andrew Kuster (b. 1969) was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Thomas and Judy Kuster. He grew up in New Ulm,...
  • Book Editor, Author
    Suhrkamp Verlag is a German publishing house, established in 1950 and generally acknowledged as one of the leading European publisher of fine literature. The firm was established by Peter Suhrkamp, who had led the equally renowned S. Fischer Verlag since 1936....
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