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Nancy Hayfield

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Nancy Hayfield is an author, editor, and publisher. In 1979, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University. Nancy Hayfield's first novel Cleaning House[1] was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1980. In 1985, writing under her married name of Nancy Birnes, Hayfield published Cheaper and Better at Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) and was the host of a PBS show called Living Cheaper and Better.[2] In 1990, she published Zap Crafts at Ten Speed Press, described in the Chicago Tribune as a "book of recreational fun"--"one of those oddities that is fun to thumb through."[2] She was the editor of the McGraw-Hill Personal Computer Programming Encyclopedia in 1986 and 1989, the UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia in 2002. She was also the last editor-in-chief of UFO Magazine when that publication ceased publication. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Filament Books.

Cleaning House

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Her first novel Cleaning House (1980) was widely reviewed.[3][4][5][6] One of the two reviews in the New York Times called it "wildly funny."[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Paperbacks: New and Noteworthy – New York Times". query.nytimes.com. January 31, 1982. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b Tennison, Patricia (December 6, 1990). "New Books For Fast, Easy Cooking And Joyful Holiday Giving". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  3. ^ Grove, Lee (November 30, 1980). "Cleaning House (book review)". Boston Globe. ProQuest 294032445.
  4. ^ A View From the Fridge: CLEANING HOUSE. By Nancy Hayfield. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LINDA BARRETT OSBORNE. The Washington Post, November 23, 1980: BW10.
  5. ^ Irony in the Afternoon: Motion Equals Sanity Description Excels, ANATOLE BROYARD. New York Times; December 6, 1980: 21.
  6. ^ A housewife fights her way back to reality, Chicago Tribune, December 21, 1980: g3.
  7. ^ ARISTOCRAT & HOUSEWIFE: [Review], New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]Dec 28, 1980: A.9.