Author and editor Dona Munker, who cofounded Women in Publishing, died on January 6. She was 77.
Munker, who originally hailed from Los Angeles, began her career in publishing as an editor at Little, Brown & Co. and Arbor House Publishing. She also worked for Time-Life Books as a trade consultant and freelance editor. She went on to teach workshops on writing and publishing at NYU and the New School and guest lectured in publishing at the City College of New York.
She was a co-founder of Women in Publishing, an organization for trade editors and literary agents. She also served on the steering committee of Women Writing Women's Lives, a discussion group of women biographers under the aegis of the City University of New York Graduate Center's Center for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Women and Society.
She frequently wrote for The Biographer's Craft, the newsletter for Biographers International Organization, and contributed book reviews to Publishers Weekly and the New York Times Book Review. She was also the co-author of the 2006 book Daughter of Persia (Crown), and before her death, she was at work on a biography of Sara Bard Field.
