Barney Latimer

Barney Latimer – Editor

An editor of literary scholarship, memoirs, poetry, fiction, and children's books, helping authors find and develop their unique voices.

Overview

A graduate of Yale University (BA) and New York University (MA), I edit novels, memoirs, academic monographs, poetry, and literary anthologies, as well as bank documents, screenplays, and advertising pitches and treatments. I am passionately committed to helping my clients find and develop their unique voices and capture their readers' imagination with vivid, clear language. For seven years, I was a senior editor at the Modern Language Association of America, where I edited and helped oversee production of PMLA, the premier academic journal of literary scholarship. I have worked with published authors such as the award-winning children's-book author and memoirist Elisha Cooper, the poet and novelist Chaya Bhuvaneswar, the novelist Joshua Spanogle, and the academic author Wendy S. Hesford.

Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs Children’s Non-Fiction Political Science & Current Affairs
Languages
English (UK) English (US)
Awards
  • Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship (poetry)
Certifications
  • BA
  • MA

Work experience

Self-employed

Nov, 2023 — Present

I work on a range of books for publishers such as W. W. Norton, Penguin, and Scholastic, and for individual clients including the award-winning memoirist and children’s book author Elisha Cooper and the poet and short-story writer Chaya Bhuvaneswar. I do line editing, copyediting, and developmental editing.

Modern Language Association of America

Mar, 2005 — Jun, 2023 (over 18 years)

I copyedited articles by literary scholars for the association's academic journal, PMLA. I also trained new editors and proofreaders and wrote blog posts about editing for our online Style Center.

Portfolio

Copy Editing Proofreading
The freshest, most contemporary introduction to comparative politics.Essentials of Comparative Politics introduces students to the concepts that political scientists use to study and compare p... read more
Copy Editing
Explore the animal world, from aardvark to zebu! Discover hundreds of animals, great and small. Lion and lizard, whale and wombat. Learn one wild fact about each animal. (Did you know that gor... read more
Copy Editing
Train

Elisha Cooper

A night train, a freight train, a high-speed train. Racing across the country, from coast to coast. All aboard!Climb aboard a red-striped Commuter Train in the East. Switch to a blue Passenger... read more
Copy Editing
Big Cat, Little Cat

Elisha Cooper

A 2018 Caldecott Honor bookThere was a cat who lived alone.Until the daya new cat came . . . And so a story of friendship begins, following the two cats through their days, months, and years u... read more
Copy Editing
“There’s a head sticking out of my best friend . . . This isn’t a miracle, it’s assault. I’d call 911 but we’re already in a hospital.” So begins the birth of Elisha Cooper’s daughter, and so ... read more
Copy Editing
A classic, reimagined.Read by millions of students since its first publication, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most-trusted anthology of world literature available. Guide... read more
Copy Editing
Spectacular Rhetorics is a rigorous analysis of the rhetorical frameworks and narratives that underlie human rights law, shape the process of cultural and legal recognition, and delimit public... read more
Copy Editing
A vigilante fights for justice at any cost.Wallis Stoneman isn’t like other teenage girls. She’s beautiful, fearless, and deadly.Wally lives alone in her Brooklyn loft. She’d be a regular teen... read more
Copy Editing
River

Elisha Cooper

A breathtaking adventure as a traveler and her canoe begin their trek down the Hudson River. In a mountain lake, the canoe gently enters the water's edge, paddling toward the river. The nautic... read more
Copy Editing
Elisha Cooper spends his morn­ings creating children’s books and his afternoons playing with his two daughters. But when he discovers a lump in five-year-old Zoë’s midsection as she sits on hi... read more
Copy Editing

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