Nancy Hayfield

'''Nancy Hayfield''' is an author, editor, and publisher. In 1979, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University. Nancy Hayfield's first novel ''Cleaning House''<ref> {{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E6DA1F38F932A05752C0A964948260&sec=&spon= |title=Paperbacks: New and Noteworthy – New York Times |publisher=query.nytimes.com |accessdate=2008-08-15 |last= |first= | date=January 31, 1982 }} </ref> was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1980. In 1985, writing under her married name of '''Nancy Birnes''', Hayfield published ''Cheaper and Better'' at Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) and was the host of a PBS show called ''Living Cheaper and Better''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/12/06/new-books-for-fast-easy-cooking-and-joyful-holiday-giving/|title=New Books For Fast, Easy Cooking And Joyful Holiday Giving|last=Tennison|first=Patricia|date=December 6, 1990|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=2017-05-04|language=en}}</ref> In 1990, she published ''Zap Crafts'' at Ten Speed Press, described in the Chicago Tribune as a "book of recreational fun"--"one of those oddities that is fun to thumb through."<ref name=":0" /> She was the editor of the McGraw-Hill Personal Computer Programming Encyclopedia in 1986 and 1989, the UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia in 2002. She was also the last editor-in-chief of UFO Magazine when that publication ceased publication. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Filament Books.

She is married to William J. Birnes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William J. Birnes, Author at Tor Publishing Group |url=https://torpublishinggroup.com/author/william-j-birnes/ |access-date=2025-08-10 |website=Tor Publishing Group |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Cour850910">{{Cite news |date=1985-09-10 |title=Neshanic Station ready to welcome new post office |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-news-neshanic-station-ready/178554827/ |access-date=2025-08-10 |newspaper=The Courier-News |location=Bridgewater, New Jersey |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Together they ran a computer science business in the 1980s.<ref name="Cour850910" />

==''Cleaning House''==

Her first novel ''Cleaning House'' (1980) was widely reviewed.<ref name="GroveReview">{{cite news|last1=Grove|first1=Lee|title=Cleaning House (book review)|publisher=Boston Globe|date=November 30, 1980|id={{ProQuest|294032445}}}}</ref><ref>A View From the Fridge: CLEANING HOUSE. By Nancy Hayfield. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LINDA BARRETT OSBORNE. The Washington Post, November 23, 1980: BW10.</ref><ref>Irony in the Afternoon: Motion Equals Sanity Description Excels, ANATOLE BROYARD. New York Times; December 6, 1980: 21.</ref><ref>A housewife fights her way back to reality, Chicago Tribune, December 21, 1980: g3.</ref> One of the two reviews in the ''New York Times'' called it "wildly funny."<ref>ARISTOCRAT & HOUSEWIFE: [Review], New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]Dec 28, 1980: A.9.</ref>

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