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

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Other

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

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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

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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

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References upon request

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A few of my favorites . . .

Sweetness All Around
by Suzanne Supplee

Little Papers Are Journalism Too
by Kathleen Hoffman

Vietnam: A History of the War
by Russell Freedman

The Polliwog Fields
by Jeremy Owen

Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice
by Susan Goldman Rubin

The White Assassin
and
Lords of Trillium
by Hilary Wagner

I'll Meet You There
by Heather Demetrios

Finding Langston
by Lesa Cline-Ransome

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

Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel
by Carl Safina
(Young Reader's Adaptation)

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Published translations

History of Western Art in Comics Part One: Prehistory to the Renaissance
by Marion Augustin, illustrated by Bruno Heitz

History of Western Art in Comics Part Two: From the Renaissance to Modern Art
by Marion Augustin, illustrated by Bruno Heitz

History of the World in Comics
by Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu, illustrated by Adrienne Barman

The Persian Garden: Echoes of Paradise
by Mehdi Khansari, M. R. Moghtader, and Minouch Yavari

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)

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)

The Persian Bazaar: Veiled Space of Desire
by Mehdi Khansari and Minouch Yavari

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