In the 1950s he worked at Prentice-Hall as a copyeditor in New York City. Most manuscripts will require the copyeditor to correlate the parts within it. Lindemann began her career as a copyeditor for several universities (Interview at 3AM Magazine). At age 23, he was made a copyeditor at the Palace Library. He worked as a copyeditor in New York before moving to San Francisco in 1987.