Robert Gottlieb, an editor extraordinaire who worked with writers as varied as Toni Morrison, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Robert Caro and Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at a hospital in Manhatta…
, an editor extraordinaire who worked with writers as varied as Toni Morrison, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Robert Caro and Bill Clinton, died Wednesday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 92.Working at publishers Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf, Gottlieb’s impressive record of shepherding manuscripts into well-regarded, sometimes bestselling and award-winning works earned him a towering reputation among literary elite.
Born in 1931, Gottlieb was raised in New York City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1952 and received a graduate degree from Cambridge two years later. In 1987, Gottlieb left publishing to become the third editor of the New Yorker, replacing William Shawn in a then-contentious shift in leadership. He stayed with the publication through 1992, then returning to publishing at Simon & Schuster. His autobiography, “Avid Reader: A Life,” was published in 2016.
Gottlieb was a subject of the documentary “Turn Every Page,” which premiered at Tribeca Festival in 2022. Directed by his daughter Lizzie, the feature focused on Gottlieb’s relationship with Caro, whose million-word manuscript of “The Power Broker” was shaped into its final form by Gottlieb. In his review,
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