A famous indexer would have turned 100 today

Some people know she was a French chef.  I know she was an indexer.

At a conference in 1997, she sat beside me. We are tall girls (me, 5’9″; her 6’2″), so we knew to sit in the back. It was on the top row of a big lecture hall, right after lunch. Editing Your Index was the topic. “Poke me if I doze off,” she chuckled under her breath.

 

“A reference or teaching book is only as good as its index.” ~ Julia Child