By Rod Ardehali For Dailymail.com
Published: 22:14 BST, 13 April 2019 | Updated: 22:14 BST, 13 April 2019
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent her final days continuing her role as a book editor, despite going through chemotherapy to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent her final days continuing her role as a book editor, despite going through chemotherapy to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The former first lady and widow of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis remarkably returned to her first passion, books, in her late 40s, helping to bring more than 100 to publication, despite her vast inherited wealth.
A new book inspired by her life, titled The Editor, chronicles the latter years of one of America's most iconic 20th century figures.
Jackie died in 1994, aged just 64, but continued marking up manuscripts in her Fifth Avenue apartment up to her death.
When her son John Jr. revealed her death, he said that in Jackie's final moments she was surrounded by friends and family 'and her books, the people and the things that she loved.'
In 1975, following the death of the wealthy Onassis, she joined Viking publishers as a consulting editor, where she, according to the book, adamant that she would receive no special
