anthologist
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Mr. Hoffman, who cultivated gay authors as an editor and anthologist, was also celebrated as the librettist of composer John Corigliano’s opera “The Ghosts of Versailles.”
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2017
One anthology to look up this fall comes from master anthologist Ellen Datlow, who takes on H.P.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2016
Lummis is an ideal guide for this endeavor — poet, anthologist, long-time L.A. literary booster — although perhaps the most essential aspect of the book is her generosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
Joining Simon & Schuster, he became an assistant to the anthologist Louis Untermeyer, helping him prepare, among other things, a Whitman compilation.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2014
This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
In her preface to “Inhabit the Poem,” she writes that the “popular belief that ‘gatekeepers’—publishers, university lecturers, anthologists, and advertisers—create the longevity of the authors we call ‘canonical’ is false.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
“I would prefer it if the textbook compilers and the anthologists would assume that I had written a few other poems.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
The anthologists are another reason for excitement: Ann VanderMeer is one of the best-regarded editors in the field – she’s a former editor-in-chief for Weird Tales who now acquires titles for Tor.com.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2016
John Mullan pointed out in the Guardian that, unlike many anthologists, Gross came up with the unfamiliar – less than 10% of his material had previously appeared in other Oxford anthologies.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2011
Lucas, prince of anthologists, for the liberal use I have made of his "Life of Charles Lamb."
From The Bed-Book of Happiness by Begbie, Harold
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