Why did Jacqueline Kennedy become an editor?

Answer 1

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wanted to become an editor since she wanted to do something with her life that did not revolve around being the wife of a larger than life figure, and because she loved to read books. Many of her peers and teachers from her formal schooling days thought the then Jacqueline Bouvier would become famous for being a book writer. Her only job before her marriages involved editing a newspaper column for the Washington Times-Herald. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis once said that if you produce one good book, you have done something very special in your life. She would edit over 100 books with Viking Press and Doubleday from 1975 until shortly before her death in 1994. She started months after her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, had died of cancer.