Edna Beilenson

Edna Rudolph Beilenson (1909–1981) was an American typographer, fine press printer, typesetter, book designer, cook book author, publisher, and co-proprietor (with her husband, Peter Beilenson) of the Peter Pauper Press from 1931 until his death in 1962, and afterward its sole proprietor and president until her death in 1981.

[2] She is credited with bringing a strong sense of graphic design and color to the press's productions, which became the hallmarks of Peter Pauper publications.

[3] Beilenson developed a keen business sense, introducing the concept of pocket-sized gift books, and edited a series of small cookbooks that sold extremely well.

Beilenson, Jane Grabhorn, Gertrude Stein, Wanda Gág, and others contributed essays, histories, images, and other works of satire and commentary about women's overlooked roles in the production of books; each signature of the book was printed by a different woman printer.

[9] Beilenson's introduction to a 1950 Distaff Side publication, A Children's Sampler, clearly illuminates the group's mission:[8] Under Beilenson's leadership, members of the same group later formed the Distaff Press which published several other titles on the subject of women's printing history.