Monday, February 3, 2020
I do not remember how I got to know Jeannine, but that must have been sometime in 1968, the year I moved to New York from Japan. I worked with her to translate a Japanese book into English. That was around 1970, when she lived near Columbia University. The book is this:
https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_880039
Then Jeannine went to work for an American publishing house in Tokyo, for a year (as I recall). After that, for some reason, she disappeared from my sight, although I saw her once in the lobby of McGraw-Hill Building where my office was. She appeared preoccupied.
As a copyeditor, Jeannine taught me some interesting rules. Her opinion of certain writers was sharp.
I regret our association lasted for only four or five years. Hiroaki Sato
