This is a list of some notable current and former American copy editors. American copy editors Lois Bryan Adams – editor, Michigan Farmer Margaret L. Bailey – editor and proprietor, The Philanthropist; editor, The Youth's Monthly Visitor and The National Era Catharine Webb Barber – editor, Madison Visitor and Southern Literary Companion; editor and proprietor, Miss Barber's Weekly Melvin L. Barnet – copy editor, The New York Times Josephine Cushman Bateham – editor, ladies department, Ohio Cultivator Emma Lee Benedict – editorial staff, New York School Journal; managing editor, Scientific Temperance Journal Tosh Berman Theodore M. Bernstein former editor of The New York Times; author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage Anna Braden – editor, Presbyterian Visitor''' Florence Anderson Clark – co-editor, The Kentucky People William G. Connolly co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage; member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board Harriet L. Cramer – editor and publisher, The Evening Wisconsin Nannie Webb Curtis editor, Texas White Ribbon, the official organ of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union Josephine Donovan Benjamin Dreyer – copy chief, Random House Mary Fels – editor, The Public: A Journal of Democracy Jessie Forsyth – editor, The Temperance Brotherhood, The Massachusetts Templar, International Good Templar, and The DawnElla M. George – editor, Pennsylvania W.C.T.U. Bulletin Hugh Hefner worked at Fortune magazine as a copy editor before founding Playboy magazine Annabel Morris Holvey – editor, The Bulletin (Pennsylvania); assistant editor, The People Corinne Stocker Horton – society editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Liv Mammone — editor of Uma Dwivedi’s poetry collection They Called her Goddess; we Named her Girl, the speculative fiction series Margins and Murmurations by author and activist, Otter Lieffe, and the literary press Game Over Books Annie Virginia McCracken proprietor and editor of The Pine Forest Echo John McIntyre assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun; a past president of the American Copy Editors Society; author of the blog You Don't Say of The Baltimore Sun Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore – dramatic editor and musical editor, Los Angeles Times Mary Norris (copy editor) Patricia T. O'Conner Eleanor Gould Packard Elizabeth Fry Page – associate editor, American Homes and Taylor-Trotwood Magazine Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins – editor, A True Republic Alice Hobbins Porter – editor, Chicago Inter Ocean Anna Rankin Riggs founder, editor, Oregon White