Writer Judy Bachrach recalls her memories of the Bettyville memoirist and her longtime editor, who “cared about everything”
But when he was sober, which he was for months, even years on end, there was nobody like him.back then—George despised snobbery. “Don’t even talk to him!” he erupted when I suggested consulting on a story with another writer who possessed—how shall I put this?—Park Avenue tendrils. “He has absolutely nothing to tell you. He’s a lapdog of the rich!”
Of course there will be those who declare to the press that because of his background, his small-town origins, George was naive, easy prey, a doomed tenderfoot in a town of spiked heels. Ridiculous assumptions. More than most editors and writers, he was a wily practitioner of office politics, a trait that doesn’t often accompany a kind disposition or a protective nature.
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