List of American copy editors

This is a list of some notable current and former American copy editors.

American copy editors[]

Melvin L. Barnet
Tosh Berman
Theodore M. Bernstein – former editor of The New York Times;^[1] author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage
William G. Connolly – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage;^[2] member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
Nannie Webb Curtis – editor, Texas White Ribbon, the official organ of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Josephine Donovan
Benjamin Dreyer
Hugh Hefner – worked at Fortune magazine as a copy editor before founding Playboy magazine^[3]
John McIntyre – assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun;^[4] a past president of the American Copy Editors Society; author of the blog You Don't Say of The Baltimore Sun
Mary Norris (copy editor)
Patricia T. O'Conner
Eleanor Gould Packard
Pam Robinson – co-founder and first president of the American Copy Editors Society^[5]
Allan M. Siegal – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage;^[6] retired
Bill Walsh – copy editor for the Washington Post, he also authored three books about the profession of copy editing and ran a website focused upon copy editing titled "The Slot".^[7]

^ "TM. Bernstein Dies; Language Authority And Ex‐Times Editor". The New York Times. June 28, 1979. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^ Carla D. Bass, C.U. (2019). Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More. Edition 2. Gatekeeper Press. p. appendix G. ISBN 978-0-9975930-3-7. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^ Balswick, J.O.; Balswick, J.K. (2007). The Family: A Christian Perspective on the Contemporary Home. Baker Publishing Group. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-8010-3249-3. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^ Collins, R.F. (2013). Editing Across Media: Content and Process for Print and Online Publication. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-4766-0203-5. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^ Harrigan, J.T.; Dunlap, K.B. (2003). The Editorial Eye. Bedford/St. Martin's. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-312-15270-3. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^ Copy Editor. Copy Editor. 2002. p. 123. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
^ "Bill Walsh, copy editor and witty authority on language, dies at 55". Washington Post. March 15, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2020.