Thomas Claire

Tom Claire (The Craft of Copyediting) has had an extensive career in copyediting and proofreading magazines and books as well as in teaching about how to achieve success in doing so. He was the copy chief at Country Living (Hearst Magazines) from 1992 to 2004 and the associate managing editor (and de facto copy chief) at Ladies’ Home Journal (Dotdash-Meredith) from 2004 to 2014. He has also copyedited and proofread at university presses (Yale and Oxford) and led copyediting seminars at Oxford University Press. Along the way he has been wine and spirits writer and editor at Living in Stamford (then McCormack Publishing) and has held other writing and editing positions, including production and copy editor at Gartner, Inc., in Stamford, Connecticut, starting in 2018. Tom earned a BA in the Classics at State University at Buffalo in 1977. He currently teaches copyediting and proofreading books at NYU SPS (beginning in 2010) and lives in Watertown, Connecticut, with Lindsay, his wife of thirty-two years.