Avid reader : a life
Robert Gottlieb (Author)
After 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. By the time he left to run Alfred A. 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. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited a long list of authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Graham, Robert Caro, Nora Ephron, and Bill Clinton -- not to mention Bruno Bettelheim and Miss Piggy. In Avid Reader, Gottlieb writes about succeeding William Shawn as the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine. Sixty years after joining Simon and Schuster, Gottlieb is still at it -- editing, anthologizing, and, to his surprise, writing
Print Book, English, 2016
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2016
Autobiography
337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9780374279929, 0374279926
932060316
Reading
Learning
Working
Simon and Schuster
Alfred A. Knopf
The New Yorker
Knopf redux
Dancing
Writing
Living
Includes index