Elizabeth Riley, 94
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 2/11/2002
Longtime children's book editor Elizabeth Riley died on January 27. She was 94. A lifelong New Yorker, Riley graduated from New York University in 1928 and earned a master's degree from Columbia. After a stint selling books in department stores, she was hired at Crowell in 1938 as a general editor. Riley went on to create the publisher's children's department that same year, where she edited a number of prize-winning titles, among them one Caldecott Medal Book and several Newbery Medal Books. She was promoted to senior v-p in 1959 and retired in 1969.
