. . . . "During that time he has edited many dozens of books, by such authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Susan Cheever, Sara Gruen, James Lee Burke, Sandra Brown, Joseph Heller, Joe McGinniss, Jackie Collins, and Robert Goolrick, as well as many celebrity authors including Cher, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Taylor, Sarah Ferguson, and Neil Simon." . . . . . . . .