Thursday, March 01, 2007

I hate typos. Unfortunately when one publishes any book, even when 10 different people have edited the manuscript, one has to learn to live with those annoying remaining typos.

Walt's People is no exception. Here are the most annoying ones I (and some readers) have caught to date:

- In Volume 3, the two titles of the Art Babbitt interviews give 1992 as the year of his death. The correct date is 1991, of course.

- In Volume 4, I mentioned that Brian Sibley's book about the making of the Mary Poppins musical is already in print. It is not. It will be released at the end of this year (to my defence, when I finalized the manuscript it was scheduled to be released in November 2006).

- And then there are the innacuracies one catches only after publication in some of the answers or some of the questions. Darrell Van Citters noticed one of those in Joe Adamson's interview with Dick Huemer in Volume 4. Huemer mentioned Frank Thomas working on Sorcerer's Apprentice. It does not appear to have been the case, as Frank had already started working on Bambi by then.

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