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3 unusual facts about Thomas Congdon


Thomas Congdon

Congdon edited books for other publishers, editing David Halberstam's The Reckoning published in 1986 by William Morrow and Company.

Russell Baker, who had been a columnist for The New York Times worked with Congdon on his best-selling memoir Growing Up, which Baker said would never have been written without Congdon's assistance.

(March 17, 1931 – December 23, 2008) was an American book editor who worked on Russell Baker's memoir Growing Up, Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws, and David Halberstam's 1986 work The Reckoning, ultimately establishing his own publishing house.



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