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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-     Subjects     Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-     Book editors -- United States -- Biography.     Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-       by title:      Avid reader : a life...       by call number:      070.51092 G686a     Search the Web     Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-     Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-     Book editors -- United States -- Biography.     Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.     Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

Avid reader : a life / Robert Gottlieb. by Gottlieb, Robert, 1931- Call #: 070.51092 G686a Subjects Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-   Book editors -- United States -- Biography.   Periodical editors -- United States -- Biography.   Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography.   Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780374279929 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  337 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Contents:  Reading -- Learning -- Working: Simon and Schuster -- Working: Knopf -- Working: The New Yorker -- Working: Knopf redux -- Dancing -- Writing -- Living. Summary:  "The editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster writes with wit and candor about becoming the editor of The New Yorker, and the challenges and satisfactions of running America's preeminent magazine,"--NoveList. After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, 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. At Knopf, Gottlieb edited an astonishing list of authors. Now he 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. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 070.51092 G686a Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 070.51092 G686a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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