At Macmillan she brought The Chronicles of Narnia books by C. S. Lewis' to the United States and was able to market Watership Down, to an adult audience and the New York Times bestseller list.
[2] She targeted a wider audience both through the creation of a paperback line of children's books that were more affordable than the hardcovers that were industry-standard at the time,[3] and by supporting authors whose work reflected the racial diversity of the country.
Further investigation by the State Division of Human Rights led to a settlement in 1976, obliging the company to offer equal pay and benefits regardless of sex as well as the integration of women into positions (like sales reps) from which they had been excluded.
She wrote seven Read-Alone books for Greenwillow—the new imprint founded by her former colleague Susan Hirschman, the Editor in Chief who had quit Macmillan in solidarity.
In 1978 Random House hired her as the director of marketing and she ultimately became the Publisher and Editor in Chief of their juvenile division (in addition to that of their subsidiaries, Pantheon and Knopf).