scott moyers remembered that she didn't like taking lunches with literary agents because there was asense that if she did it with one or two, all of them would want to come and have lunch with her see the chirping of the color and i wasn't. [laughter] and that began sort of a painting fascination with royal ridge that has something to do with my own biography. in other than that, i think you probably have to at least look a little bit further. you the psychoanalyst would have to tell me you better than me telling you. atteberry, back there in the back of the room has got a very mischievous question i can see from the look in his eyes. >> just a simple question, which is how was jackie's performance financially quiet sort of her books from a business perspective. gucci make money for doubleday in the end? to chew this money? bogus or financial performance relative to some of the other editors that were working during her time? >> i think she had a much easier time. the other editors were kept more strictly to being sort of force to do books that were profitable year in and year out. j

scott moyers, a high literary agent in new york, but then was a junior assistant to jackie, rememberseing sick one weekend, and she wasn't to the store and brought him back medicine. she reproached him for going outside with his hair wet, and then she sponsored him when he ran a marathon to raise money for leukemia for which his own mother died. not only did his children books rise from her experience as a mother, but her colleagues and authors all remembered a maternal strain in their editorial work with her. betty thought jackie was a closet feminist. [laughter] although that may sound like an intentionally provocative remark, actually, quite a few of jackie's books back up that contention. they are on women's history, and by the way, women's history far ahead of its time in some ways. women's history is a established part in the american education departments, but in the 1970s when she began to do this, it was not. she was ahead of her time with this, so she did books on women's history and several fictional narratives of independent women fighting against the odds in a man's world

scott moyers, who's now a very high-powered literary agent in new york but who was then a very junior assistant to jackie, remembers that when he got sick one winter, she went out to the drugstore and brought him back theraflu. she reproached him for going outside with his hair wet, and then she sponsored him when he ran a marathon to raise money for leukemia from which his own mother had died. so not only did her children's books arise from her experience as a more, but her colleagues and authors all remembered a maternal strain in their editorial work with her. betty prix can thought jackie was a closet feminist, and although that may sound like sort of an intentionally provocative remark, actually, quite a few of jackie's books back up that contention. they are on women's history and, by the way, women's history far ahead of it time in some ways. women's he'stist hi -- history is now part of american universities and history departments, but in the 1970s when she began to do this, it was not. she was ahead of her time with this. so she did book on women's history, but she also did