On May 21, 2002, Women’s Wear Daily reported that The Devil Wears Prada had sold to Doubleday for a reported $250,000. Schneider called and said, “If she wants to sell this book, I can sell it this afternoon.” Her instructor asked to show her material to a book agent, Deborah Schneider, and she said yes even though she was far from a complete draft. Reading her material, Story later told her to get writing lessons.įollowing his advice, Weisberger enrolled in a creative writing course and, as could have been predicted, started writing a novel about what she knew, as writing teachers often suggest, and what she thought would be most interesting to others, which was assisting Anna Wintour. Weisberger was “a lovely girl,” she added, but “not a great writer, poor thing.” After being on the job for months, Weisberger asked Richard David Story, an editor who was leaving Vogue for Departures magazine, if she could go be his assistant there. Predictably, Weisberger “couldn’t get any assignments from us,” said Laurie Jones, the managing editor at the time. However, quickly there were worrying signs that Weisberger wasn’t going to work out, the biggest being that she clearly wanted to be a writer.Īssisting Anna wasn’t about being a journalist, it was about delivering hot lattes quickly in high heels. She had just graduated from Cornell, and editor-in-chief Anna Wintour decided to hire her as her assistant. Around Christmas of 1999, Lauren Weisberger rolled into the Vogue office.
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