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George L. Newman

COPYEDITING · PROOFREADING · INDEXING

george @ georgenewman.com

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Work experience

Freelance copy editor and proofreader of trade books for adults, young adults, and middle graders, 2005-present; freelance indexer, 2016-present. Scroll down to see some of my favorites among the books I've worked on over the years.

Copy editor, The Free Lance-Star, daily newspaper in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1999–2012

Freelance translator, French to English, of nonfiction trade books, children's books, patents, regulations, corporate and personal documents, 1993–2000 and 2020–present

Office manager, The River's End, custom architectural millwork and cabinetry, 1991–93

Supervisor/lead carpenter, Shibley, Ehman Co., restoration and preservation of historic buildings, commercial and residential construction and renovation, 1984–90

General contractor, residential remodeling and restoration, 1976–83


Other

Long involvement with local environmental organizations; served on Stafford County (Virginia) Wetlands Board and Rappahannock State Scenic River Advisory Board


Areas of particular expertise / interest

Architecture, building construction, woodworking
Environment, especially freshwater wetland and aquatic systems, associated land-use and regulatory issues
Natural history, farming, gardening, forestry, beekeeping


Professional and academic credentials

Certified (French to English), American Translators Association
Graduate Certificate in Translation, George Mason University, 1992
B.A. in French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966


References upon request


A few of my favorites . . .

[Cover photo of 'Sweetness All Around'] Sweetness All Around
by Suzanne Supplee

[Cover photo of 'Little Papers Are  Journalism Too'] Little Papers Are Journalism Too
by Kathleen Hoffman


[Cover photo of 'Vietnam: A History of the War'] Vietnam: A History of the War
by Russell Freedman


[Cover photo of 'The Polliwog Fields'] The Polliwog Fields
by Jeremy Owen


[Cover photo of 'Brown v. Board of Education'] Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice
by Susan Goldman Rubin


[Cover photo of 'The White Assassin'] [Cover photo of 'Lords of Trillium']The White Assassin
and
Lords of Trillium
by Hilary Wagner


[Cover photo of 'I'll Meet You There'] I'll Meet You There
by Heather Demetrios


[Cover photo of 'Finding Langston'] Finding Langston
by Lesa Cline-Ransome


[Cover photo of 'Enemy Child'] Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II
by Andrea Warren


[Cover photo of 'Beyond Words'] Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel
by Carl Safina
(Young Reader's Adaptation)



Published translations

[Cover photo of 'History of Western Art I'] History of Western Art in Comics Part One: Prehistory to the Renaissance
by Marion Augustin, illustrated by Bruno Heitz


[Cover photo of 'History of Western Art I'] History of Western Art in Comics Part Two: From the Renaissance to Modern Art
by Marion Augustin, illustrated by Bruno Heitz


[Cover photo of 'History of the World'] History of the World in Comics
by Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu, illustrated by Adrienne Barman


[Cover photo of 'Persian Garden'] The Persian Garden: Echoes of Paradise
by Mehdi Khansari, M. R. Moghtader, and Minouch Yavari


[Cover photo of 'The Beautiful Days of My Youth'] The Beautiful Days of My Youth: My Six Months in Auschwitz and Plaszow
by Ana Novac

“Piercingly acute prose . . . [Novac] writes with merciless clarity and a shrewd, practiced eye for detail.” (Publishers Weekly Best Books of '97)

“Searing and emotionally exhausting” (VOYA)

“A brilliant, literary memoir” (School Library Journal)

[Cover photo of 'Normandy Diary']The Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont: 1940-1944

“A record for which there is no equivalent for the battle of Normandy, and very few from the whole history of warfare” (from the introduction by military historian John Keegan)

Osmont, having been a nurse and ambulance driver in World War I, “knew what she was seeing and described it with sympathy, clarity, and a stiff-lipped rejection of hysteria” (The Atlantic; read the full review here)

[Cover photo of 'Persian Bazaar'] The Persian Bazaar: Veiled Space of Desire
by Mehdi Khansari and Minouch Yavari




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