Jane N Garrett

Jane Garrett, who as an editor at the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house guided seven books to Pulitzer Prizes for history but watched another book lose its prestigious Bancroft Prize over scholars’ criticism of the author’s research, died on Oct. 12, 2023 at her home in Middlebury, Vt. She was 88. Garrett worked at Knopf for 44 years, going the firm in 1967. Martha Jane Nuckols was born on July 16, 1935, in Dover, Delaware. She studied history at the University of Delaware and, in her senior year, married Wendell Garrett, who would become the editor of Antiques magazine. After earning her bachelor’s degree in 1957, she joined the acquisitions department of the Boston Athenaeum library. She was the assistant to the director there from 1959 to 1968. Garrett’s marriage to Mr. Garrett ended in divorce. No immediate family members survive.