Caroline Knight

Caroline Knight has been editing for 22 years. She began her career in publishing at Penguin Books in 1989, when she joined Editorial 2, the department dedicated to copy-editing.  She worked for Liz Bland, who with present PTC tutor Gillian Clarke was one of the architects of the Copy-Editing Skills course, and then for Mark Handsley, another current PTC tutor.  She became Managing Editor of Allen Lane The Penguin Press in 1995 before moving to Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated in 1997. She lived in Greece, working freelance and tutoring at PTC, from 2000 until 2003, when she became Managing Editorial Director at William Heinemann, an imprint of the Random House group. In 2008 she moved to Atlantic Books, where she stayed until 2010 when she moved to rural Kent and rejoined the freelance community. 

Among others she has worked with Alastair Campbell, Vince Cable, David Willetts, Margaret Drabble and late Herman Leonard, as well as a wide variety of others less famous.  She enjoys editing both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular leaning towards history and politics.  

She lives on the edge of the North Downs with her husband, three children, a dog, six hens and tens of thousands of bees.