Alice Rosengard arosengard1@yahoo.com    (212) 662-4323 SpecialtiesLiterary and mainstream fiction, science, biography, psychology, memoir, current affairs, cookbooks, health, poetry. Profile During her eighteen years as a staff reader at HarperCollins Publishers, Alice Rosengard evaluated thousands of manuscripts. She also acted as a consultant on the works of many authors, including Bette Bao Lord, John Ehle, Walter Walker, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Her advice often made the difference between a merely publishable book and an acclaimed one.

After she established herself as an independent editor and book doctor in 1991, her clientele grew to include physicians, psychologists, journalists,

attorneys, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. Her work with beginners and published authors 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 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 and structural editing, substantive editing, and line editing.