the devil wears prada de lauren weisberger

In May of 2005, news broke that Meryl Streep would play Miranda Priestly, the Anna character from The Devil Wears Prada, in the feature film.ĭirector David Frankel was adamant that he wouldn’t participate in an Anna Wintour takedown. 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.

Urn:isbn:9851368296 Scandate 20100305214419 Scanner scribe10.la.archive.Around Christmas of 1999, Lauren Weisberger rolled into the Vogue office. OL15137663W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.27 Pages 456 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:5170269420 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:25:25 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA110113 Boxid_2 BWB220140828 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1st Anchor Books ed.

The devil wears prada de lauren weisberger