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

I edit novels (adult and young adult), 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. I am currently a senior editor at the Modern Language Association of America, where I edit and help oversee production of PMLA, the premier academic journal of literary scholarship.
Services
Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs Children’s Non-Fiction Political Science & Current Affairs
Fiction
Picture Books
Languages
English (UK) English (US)
Awards
  • Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship (poetry)
Certifications
  • BA
  • MA

Work experience

Modern Language Association of America

Mar, 2005 — Present

I edit articles by literary scholars for the association's academic journal, PMLA, and I oversee aspects of its production. I also train new editors and proofreaders and write blog posts about editing for our online Style Center.

Portfolio

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 political systems and the particulars of specific political systems. ... read more
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 gorillas yawn when they are nervous?) Look carefully, because for each ... read more
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 Train rolling through midwestern farmland. Then hop on a Freight Tr... read more
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 until one day, the older cat has to go. And he doesn’t come back.This... read more
“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 begins this touching and hilarious chronicle of his year as a first-... read more
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. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a ... read more
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 responses to violence and injustice. Integrating visual and textual... read more
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 teenager, except that she’s the daughter of a Russian assassin. Crime is... read more
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 nautical journey begins.She is alone, far from home.Three hundred miles st... read more
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 his lap at a Chicago Cubs game, everything changes. Surgery, sleepless... read more

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