Robert Gottlieb, literary editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, dies at 92
Gottlieb, one of the last working editors from the pre-corporate era of publishing, helped shape the modern publishing canon
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Gottlieb, one of the last working editors from the pre-corporate era of publishing, helped shape the modern publishing canon
During a seven-decade career as the top editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and the New Yorker, Robert A. Gottlieb published Toni Morrison, Joseph Heller, and Robert Caro, among other authors who could fill an anthology of contemporary literary heavyweights.
He died of natural causes on Wednesday at a New York hospital, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group said.
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.
Gottlieb’s reputation was made during his time as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster and later Alfred A. Knopf.