Editing Proofreading (section)

==In fiction==
Examples of proofreaders in fiction include: 
* ''[[The History of the Siege of Lisbon]]'' (''Historia do Cerco de Lisboa''), a 1989 novel by Nobel laureate [[Jose Saramago]]
* the short story "Proofs" in [[George Steiner]]'s ''Proofs and Three Parables'' (1992)
* the short story "Evermore" in ''Cross Channel'' (1996) by [[Julian Barnes]], in which the protagonist Miss Moss is a proofreader for a dictionary. 
* Under the headline "Orthographical" in [[James Joyce]]'s 1922 novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', the protagonist [[Leopold Bloom]], watching the typesetter foreman Mr. Nannetti read over a "limp galleypage", thinks "Proof fever".<ref>{{cite book |title=Ulysses |pages=116{{ndash}}117 |chapter=Chapter 7 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap07 |date=1922 |publisher=Egoist Press, John Rodker |location=London, Paris |last1=Joyce |first1=James |via=[[Project Gutenberg]] |access-date=2021-09-10 |archive-date=2021-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120140801/https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm#chap07 |url-status=live }} ([https://archive.org/details/ulysses00joyc_1/page/116/mode/2up Facsimile copy at Archive.org])</ref> 
* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story "[[Galley Slave]]" features a robot proofreader.