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rosmond in 1964 23 october 1997 rosamond campion 04 november 1917 babette rosmond.jpg babette rosmond
 babette rosmond author , editor
babette rosmond

babette rosmond -lrb- november 4 , 1917 -- october 23 , 1997 -rrb- was an american author .
rosmond sold her first short story to `` the new yorker '' at age seventeen .
she published short fiction of her own and with leonard m. lake .
she worked as an editor at the magazine publisher street & smith , editing two of their most famous pulp magazines , `` doc savage '' -lrb- from 1944 to 1948 -rrb- and `` the shadow '' -lrb- from 1946 to 1948 -rrb- .
fellow street & smith editor john w. campbell , the legendary science fiction editor , published rosmond 's sf debut , a story co-written by lake called `` are you run-down , tired - , '' in the october 1942 issue of `` unknown worlds '' and included her story `` one man 's harp '' from the august 1943 issue in `` from unknown worlds '' -lrb- 1948 -rrb- , an anthology of the best stories from that magazine .
in 1944 , she married lawyer henry stone , brother of louis stone of the brokerage firm haydn stone , and uncle of director oliver stone .
they would be married for the rest of her life and they had two children , one of whom is the writer gene stone www.genestone.com , the other is james stone , founder , ceo and chairman of the plymouth rock assurance corporation .
rosmond set her debut novel , `` the dewy dewy eyes '' -lrb- 1946 -rrb- , in the world of pulp magazine publishing , featuring a heroine fresh out of college and an editor-in-chief who plans a new glossy paper publication .
her second novel , `` a party for grown-ups '' -lrb- 1948 -rrb- , was about an affair between a married doctor and a wealthy divorcee .
`` lucy , or the delaware dialogues '' -lrb- 1952 -rrb- was about infighting amongst the suburban delaware family .
she also wrote `` the children : a comedy for grown-ups '' -lrb- 1956 -rrb- , `` the lawyers '' -lrb- 1962 -rrb- , `` error hurled '' -lrb- 1976 -rrb- , and `` monarch '' -lrb- 1978 -rrb- .
she published the satirical novel `` diary of a candid lady '' -lrb- 1964 -rrb- under the name francis m. arroway .
she served as fiction editor of `` today 's family '' -lrb- from 1952 to 1953 -rrb- then worked at `` better living '' -lrb- from 1953 to 1956 -rrb- , and `` seventeen '' -lrb- from 1957 to 1975 -rrb- .
at `` seventeen '' she was fiction editor and edited a series of anthologies of fiction published in the magazine : `` seventeen 's stories '' -lrb- 1958 -rrb- , `` seventeen from seventeen '' -lrb- 1967 -rrb- , `` seventeen book of prize stories '' -lrb- 1968 -rrb- , and `` today 's stories from seventeen '' -lrb- 1971 -rrb- .
with actor henry morgan she published a collection of the work of humorist ring lardner , `` shut up , he explained : a ring lardner selection '' -lrb- 1962 -rrb- .
she also wrote a well-received biography of author and humorist robert benchley , whom she had met as a teenager , `` robert benchley : his life and good times '' -lrb- 1970 -rrb- .
in the 1970s , rosmond became an important early activist against traditional treatments for breast cancer .
in february 1971 she found an olive-sized lump in her breast and was diagnosed with breast cancer .
the traditional treatment was a radical mastectomy , which required removal of the entire breast as well as surrounding tissue , muscle , and lymph nodes .
two of her friends had that procedure and reported being unhappy with their choice and the resulting side effects .
in response to her refusal to undergo a radical mastectomy , her doctor was condescending and insulting and told her she would be dead within three weeks .
through an article in `` mccall 's '' by dr. william a. nolen she learned about dr. george crile , jr. at the cleveland clinic .
crile was a leading advocate in the united states for procedures that removed much less material , a simple mastectomy , which only removes the breast , and a lumpectomy , which removes only a small amount of tissue .
then extremely controversial , these treatments are now standard instead of using a radical mastectomy in all cases .
crile performed a successful lumpectomy on rosmond and her cancer did not reappear until the late 1990s .
she said `` i think what i did was the highest level of women 's liberation .
i said ` no ' to a group of doctors who told me , ` you must sign this paper , you do n't have to know what it 's all about .
under the name rosamond campion , she began writing about her experiences .
her article in the february 1972 issue of `` mccall 's '' , `` the right to choose '' , generated more mail than any article in that publication 's history .
some 80 percent of the mail was in support of her decision and many of the letters were from women who asked how to contact dr. crile , whose name she had withheld at his request .
she told her story in a book , `` the invisible worm '' -lrb- 1972 -rrb- , which takes its title from the poem `` the sick rose '' by william blake .
she appeared on a number of television programs , including a 1973 episode of `` the david susskind show '' where she and crile debated two surgeons and two breast cancer survivors all opposed to her position .
public activism like rosamond 's caused a drastic transformation in how patients and doctors interacted regarding breast cancer and prompted a growing rejection of more radical procedures in favor of more informed decision making by the patient .
rosmond died in 1997 .
her breast cancer never recurred .
