Have you ever had someone make a major impact on your spirit without full actualise it ? Mangesh and I were saddened to find out about the death of one such person , Ms. Susan Tifft . Susan died yesterday after a 2.5 twelvemonth battle with cancer .
Much of the publishing world will retrieve Susan as the coauthor of two critically acclaimed nonfiction workplace , The Patriarch : The ascent and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty , andThe trustfulness : The secret and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times . Others will remember her as an incredibly talented author and editor forTime Magazine , as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter , or as a passionate and always - accessible prof at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke .
But Mangesh and I will remember her as the professor who was crazy enough to believe that what we were doing 10 class ago was worth corroborate .
I can recollect so vividly the first meeting with Susan , where I pitch the magazine ’s construct to her . Looking back , I have no musical theme why she decided we were worth betting on , but she did . As the first official extremity of our advisory board , Susan helped us get to out to some of her closest friends in publication , and just a few old age later , we could hunt some of our most pregnant breaks back to her . From adding other key advisory board members to establish partnership with companies such as AOL andReader ’s Digest , Susan was frequently the initial threshold unfastener . But she never wanted reference for work that part .
I have no idea what to think about the hereafter , but it ’s at least fun to remember that perhaps Susan ’s pulled out a notepad and has embark on work on her third behind - the - vista Christian Bible on a publish company . Hopefully she ’s document all the times Mangesh went back for multiple sample at the Manchu Wok in the mall foodcourt , or my ongoing struggle with Diet Sunkist addiction . Scandalous !
To Susan ’s booster and home , our thought process go out to you .
See Also : Susan Tifft , Centennial State - author of definitive newspaper record book , dead at 59[Boston Globe ]
