Margaret Jones

As a writer as well as an editor, Margaret Jones offers a strong intuitive sense of what makes a sentence right or wrong, an ear for what makes each author's voice and style unique, and rigorous attention to the correctnes of facts and historical details.

Ms. Jones has edited such works as those of Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Haynes Johnson and Edward Humes; Middle East specialist Bernard Avishai; former Economist editor Bill Emmott; philosopher Susan Neiman; historians David Detzer, Jonathan Wright, and Howard Means; social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson; international conflict resolution specialist Richard E. Rubenstein; biographers Jeffrey Meyers and Bill Gifford; as well as the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, William F. Buckley, John Harvey, Todd Hasek Lowry, Robert Bausch, and various annotated editions of Virginia Woolf; and Russian and French poetry translated by Vladimir Nabokov.