She was the editor of New York Times Book Review Notes and Queries for 15 years, until 1955.
She used her scores of reference books and her detective skills to winkle out the answers and publish them.
[4] The Best Loved Poems of the American People was printed by Doubleday in the middle of the Great Depression and sold more than 500,000 copies.
[5] Felleman wrote in the introduction: "In the compilation of this book I have drawn on my experience as editor of the Queries and Answers page of the New York Times Book Review over a period of fifteen years.
The majority of inquiries that I receive are for favorite poems, and since not a day passes that does not bring to my desk a large sheaf of letters from all parts of the country, it is only natural that I have learned something of the poetry preferences of the American people.