A stickler for details
Today’s Globe features a profile of Margaret MacMillan, presenting her as “that rare oxymoron: a celebrity historian.”
MacMillan talks about her plans for the future, which include a move to Oxford and a book on the 1945 Yalta meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. ( “I’m sorry, I always do conferences,” she tells the Globe.)
She also talks about having her first major book, Paris 1919, turned down by Canadian publishers:
“Look,” she says when the subject is broached, leaning forward slightly in her chair, not agitated but like someone who finally wants to set the record straight, “Everyone worries about this and says, ‘What’s wrong with Canadian publishers?’ It was rejected by Canadian, American, and British publishers. So it was rejected all around.”
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