Biography:Jeannette Hopkins
Jeannette Hopkins | |
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| Born | 1923 Camden, NJ |
| Died | 2011 Portsmouth, NH |
| Education | Vassar, BA, English, 1944 Columbia School of Journalism, MS, 1945 |
| Known for | Book editing |
Notable work | Kenneth Clark, Jacques Barzun, Frank Mankiewicz, Edwin Newman, Annie Dillard |
Jeannette Hopkins (1923–2011) was notable for a remarkable career in letters when few women worked in the field. In the mid-1940s, she was a reporter for the New Haven Register, the Providence Journal-Bulletin and the Oklahoma City Times. In 1952, she served as senior editor at Beacon Press, Harcourt Brace & World, and Harper & Row.[1] In 1973, she worked as a consulting editor for Harper & Row, McGraw-Hill, MacMillan, Random House, and Yale.[1] In 1980, she was named director and editor-in-chief at Wesleyan University Press.[1][2][3]
Praised for her "wide-ranging intellectual curiosity that informed her taste in books combined with a sophisticated sense of language and book structure ... [and] her extraordinary intellectual toughness,"[2] Hopkins developed a "stable" of historians, journalists, political scientists, theologians, and scholars, including James MacGregor Burns, Jacques Barzun and Eugene Genovese, Frank Mankiewicz, Edwin Newman, Annie Dillard, and C.S. Lewis.[4] In a letter to the editor of the New York Times Magazine, she noted that "Authors have an afterlife that may be lasting, the life of their books."[5]
Guided by an interest in "public affairs, specifically civil liberties and race relations" and described by PEN America as a "social justice advocate,"[3] Hopkins was an elected at-large member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Board, as well as a member of their National Advisory Council. In 1970, Hopkins co-authored A Relevant War Against Poverty with Kenneth B. Clark.[6] Hopkins also authored articles and books on Unitarianism, civil rights, and New Hampshire history.[7] Despite her focus on nonfiction, however, she was credited for providing some editing to BOA Editions Ltd., a not-for-profit literary publisher known for their poetry, poetry-in-translation, and short fiction.[8]
Authors
A partial list of Hopkins's authors include:
- James MacGregor Burns
- Ben H. Bagdikian
- Jacques Barzun
- Robert Bendiner
- Marquis W. Childs
- Kenneth B. Clark
- Annie Dillard
- Eugene Genovese
- Leonard W. Levy
- C.S. Lewis
- Frank Mankiewicz
- Lewis Mumford
- Edwin Newman
- Stan Steiner
Bibliography
- Clarke, Kenneth B., and Hopkins, Jeannette. A Relevant War Against Poverty. Harper & Row, 1970. ASIN: B00B2CXVEC
- Hopkins, Jeannette. Fourteen Journeys to Unitarianism. Beacon Press, 1959. ASIN: B00188159I
- Hopkins, Jeannette, "Racial justice and the press: Mutual suspicion or 'the saving remnant'?" Metropolitan Applied Research Center, 1968. ASIN: B0006CHDW0
- Hopkins, Jeannette. Legacy: A history of the South Church endowment. Unitarian-Universalist Church of Portsmouth, N.H., 1995. ISBN: BX9861.P67 H67.
- Butler, Jeffrey. Cradock: How Segregation and Apartheid came to a South African Town. Richard Elphick and Jeannette Hopkins, eds. University of Virginia Press, 2017.[9] ISBN: Sc E 18-129
- The Warner House. Joyce Geary Volk and Jeannette Hopkins, eds. The Warner House Association, 2006. ISBN: JQG 07-622
Archive
Memberships
- ACLU
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- PEN America
See also
- Author editing
- Developmental editing
- Non-fiction
- Women in journalism
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Guide to the Jeannette Hopkins Papers, 1922-2011 | Vassar College Digital Library" (in en). https://digitallibrary.vassar.edu/collections/finding-aids/5ffd8576-f00a-497c-9eb1-907343c37522.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 selliott (2011-08-12). "Jeannette Hopkins, press director (1980-89), dies |" (in en-US). https://wespress.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2011/08/12/jeanette-hopkins-press-director-1980-89-dies/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 kanopi_admin (2011-09-12). "PEN Remembers Book Editor and PEN Member Jeannette Hopkins" (in en-US). https://pen.org/pen-remembers-book-editor-and-pen-member-jeannette-hopkins/.
- ↑ McMahon, Charles. "Renowned book editor Jeannette Hopkins dies at 88" (in en-US). https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/portsmouth-herald/2011/08/08/renowned-book-editor-jeannette-hopkins/49941557007/.
- ↑ "Letters: My Father’s Broken Heart" (in en-US). The New York Times. 2010-07-16. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/magazine/18Letters-t-MYFATHERSBRO_LETTERS.html.
- ↑ "English - After Vassar - Jeannette Hopkins ’44 | Vassar College". https://www.vassar.edu/english/after-vassar/jeannette-hopkins-44.
- ↑ Social Work, Volume 15, Issue 4, October 1970, Pages 115–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/15.4.115
- ↑ The University of Rochester’s BOA Editions Limited Collection, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Department (Apr 5, 2016). "BOA Editions Limited PapersD.37". BOA Editions Limited. https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/.
- ↑ "Elphick Edits Late Professor’s Book on the History of South Africa’s Racial Segregation" (in en-US). https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2017/11/27/elphick-edits-late-professors-book-on-the-history-of-south-africas-racial-segregation/.
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