Robert Gottileb dead: Literary editor of Toni Morrison dies at 92
Literary editor Robert Gottileb, who worked on classics such as Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and Robert Caro's "The Power Broker," has died at age 92.
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Literary editor Robert Gottileb, who worked on classics such as Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and Robert Caro's "The Power Broker," has died at age 92.
Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics.
Robert Gottlieb, a literary editor that counted Robert Caro, Toni Morrison and John le Carré among his clients, has died. He was 92.
Gottlieb died Wednesday of natural causes at a New York hospital.
The famously Jewish New Yorker shepherded into print and best-sellerdom such 20th-century classics as 'Catch-22,' 'The Chosen' and 'The Power Broker'