Poetic Obituaries: Herbert Bailey edited the work of some

of the nation's most influential minds. Among them: Henry David Thoreau, Woodrow Wilson and Albert Einstein.

Going head-to-head with their work, Bailey was no stranger to brilliance.

But if you were to ask him about his greatest feat as an editor, he might point to the comments he left on the essays of middle-school English students in Pittsboro.

An "omnivore of knowledge," Bailey was the director of the Princeton University Press for 32 years.

from The News & Observer: Princeton editor Herbert Bailey, 89, dies

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