Arkady Emmanuilovich Milchin (1924–2014) is a name familiar to everyone involved in the publishing business. Milchin is the author of numerous editing manuals and reference books for editors and authors. In addition, for two decades he was the editor-in-chief of the Moscow publishing house "Book", whose products have long become classics. “The Man of the Book” - memoirs of A.E. Milchin about his family, his childhood, his studies at the Printing Institute and, most importantly, his work at the publishing houses “Iskusstvo” and “Kniga”, about Soviet censorship, about how Soviet bosses tried to manage culture. But this is not just a memoir, but an editor’s memoir, so the author constantly thinks about what editorial work is and what its meaning is.