Mary E. Laur
Senior Project Editor
E-mail: mlaur@press.uchicago.edu
Subjects: Writing guides; general reference
Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
My current acquisitions focus is on guidebooks for writers, with a particular emphasis on creative writing fields (though not original works of creative writing) and on communication of scholarly ideas and research to nonspecialist readers. Over the past decade I have helped develop new editions of our classic reference works for writers, The Chicago Manual of Style and Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, as well as such general interest works as The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion; Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age; The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples; and The Encyclopedia of Chicago. My training as a historian (Northwestern University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and as a nonfiction writer (University of Chicago, among others) has shaped both my commitment and my approach to our reference books.
