Sheraton, Mimi: Early Career

After high school, she enrolled in the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finances, and, a year later, in 1945, married Bill Schlifman, a returning GI (they changed their last name to Sheraton soon after their marriage), and moved into Greenwich Village, where she has lived ever since. It was at this point that she taught herself to cook, pouring through copies of Gourmet magazine. She completed her degree taking night classes while working during the day as an advertising copywriter specializing in jewelry and home furnishings. She parlayed this into a job writing about interior design for Good Housekeeping, earning a certificate in design to give herself credibility, and then into a position as home furnishings editor at Seventeen, to which she then added the job of food editor. By this point, her nearly decade-long marriage had ended. She moved on to be the managing editor for a supplement at House Beautiful, and then quit. For the next twenty years, she would write freelance.