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Robert Terry McDonell (born August 1, 1944) is an American editor, writer and publishing executive. [1] He is a co-founder of the Literary Hub website that launched in 2015. His memoir, The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers, was published by Knopf in 2016, and he is also the author of Irma: The education of a Mother's ...
Terry McDonell is a media executive, literary editor, and author. See IRMA: The Education of a Mother's Son by Terry McDonell, to be released on April 11th. Order now!
Aug 8, 2016 · Terry McDonell's new book, 'The Accidental Life,' chronicles his decades-long career as a magazine editor. (Photo: Penguin Random House/Rachel Cobb)
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May 1, 2023 · By Terry McDonell. May 1, 2023. Terry McDonell was raised by his single mother, Irma, a war widow of a navy pilot when she was 25 and he was 4 months old. He writes that what passes between a mother and a son is not defined by her love in the moment, but later by the echoes of her motherhood. Article continues after advertisement.
Apr 11, 2023 · As a child, Terry McDonell imagined epic stories about his father, a fighter pilot who died in World War II. But, as he discovers in this dazzling memoir, the real hero in his life was his mother, Irma, who moved with him to California hoping for a new life and raised him through difficult times.
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Apr 9, 2023 · In his new memoir, “Irma,” Terry McDonell, a magazine editor during the golden age of magazines, gives credit to Mom (and Hemingway).
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TERRY McDONELL has won numerous awards for his editorial work at various magazines and websites. He is also a novelist and poet, and has written and produced for film and television. In 2012 he was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame.