Books Details
Author : Robert Gottlieb Pages : 352 pages Publisher : Farrar,
Straus and Giroux Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0374279926 ISBN-13 :
9780374279929
Books Descriptions
A 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. 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 an astonishing list of
authors, including Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Doris Lessing,
John le Carr?, 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 with wit and candor 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,
