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Mary Lee Donovan Editor & Author Mary Lee celebrates her 19th anniversary at Candlewick Press in 2010. Prior to joining Candlewick in 1991, she spent seven years at Houghton Mifflin, where she began her career in children's book publishing after getting her Master's Degree in Children's Literature. Mary Lee enjoys editing a variety of genres, from nonfiction to picture books to fiction to projects that demand an audience in spite of their refusal to be neatly and easily categorized. She is the editor of the Judy Moody and Stink series by Megan McDonald, as well as the editor for Laura Amy Schlitz, author of the 2008 Newbery Medal winner, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village. Among the other authors with whom she works are Jane Cowen-Fletcher, John Lechner, Emma Magenta, Scott Nash, Catharine O'Neill, Doreen Rappaport, and Rosemary Wells. Mary Lee has also had three picture books published, and is working on new projects, with support from in two writing groups. Mary Lee has an exceptional eye for what makes a book work, from both the author's and the editor's point of view. Her delight in the fine art of children's book creation is catching. |