Avid Reader: A Life Gottlieb Robert
Avid Reader: A Life Gottlieb Robert Winner of the Anne M. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Sperber PrizeA spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The…
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Avid Reader: A Life Gottlieb Robert
Winner of the Anne M. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Sperber PrizeA spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster.
At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le Carre, Michael Crichton, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Graham, Robert Caro, Nora Ephron, and Bill Clinton--not to mention Bruno Bettelheim and Miss Piggy. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch-22 and The American Way of Death, among other bestsellers. In Avid Reader, Gottlieb writes with wit and candor about succeeding William Shawn as the