Alice Rosengard arosengard1@yahoo.com    (212) 662-4323 SpecialtiesLiterary and mainstream fiction, science, history, biography, memoir, psychology, current affairs, cookbooks. Profile Alice Rosengard is an independent book doctor and editor with over thirty-five years’ experience in trade book publishing. At HarperCollins Publishers she acted as a consultant on the works of many authors, including Bette Bao Lord, John Ehle, Walter Walker, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz.

Her clientele includes historians, journalists, psychologists, attorneys, physicians, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, along with many first-time novelists. Her work is marked by clarity, thoroughness, empathy, and respect for the

individual nature of each project. She is known for her extraordinary ability at finding developmental and structural solutions in both fiction and nonfiction.

Among her editorial credits are George C. Daughan’s If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy—From the Revolution to the War of 1812 (Samuel Eliot Morison Award), Larry Sloman’s Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Countercultural Revolution in America, Steven Ungerleider’s Faust’s Gold: Inside the East German Doping Machine (Rodale Press/Runner’s World Award for Best Sports Book of the Year), Kuki Gallmann’s African Nights: True Stories from the Author of I Dreamed of Africa, Michael S. Schneider’s A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science, Martha Rose Shulman’s The Vegetarian Feast (Tastemaker Award), and Robert Calderisi’s The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working.

She provides manuscript and proposal evaluation, developmental editing, and line editing.