Robert Gottlieb

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Robert Adams Gottlieb (born April 29, 1931 in New York ) is an American writer and journalist. From 1987 to 1992 he was editor-in-chief of The New Yorker magazine .

Life and career

Robert Gottlieb was born in New York City in 1931. He grew up in Manhattan. He studied at Columbia University and Cambridge University . In 1955 he became assistant to Jack Goodman, the chief editor at the time, at Simon and Schuster .

Gottlieb is married to the actress Maria Tucci and the couple have two children.

Gottlieb discovered the novel Catch-22 by the hitherto largely unknown Joseph Heller . He was chief editor at Simon & Schuster and later at Alfred A. Knopf . He left the Knopf publishing house in 1987 and became editor-in-chief of New Yorker as successor to William Shawn , remaining in this position in 1992.

Gottlieb edited novels by John Cheever , Salman Rushdie , John Gardner , Len Deighton , John le Carré , Ray Bradbury , Elia Kazan , Margaret Drabble , Michael Crichton , Mordecai Richler and Toni Morrison , as well as non-fiction books by Barbara Tuchman , Jessica Mitford , Antonia Fraser , Lauren Bacall , Liv Ullmann , Sidney Poitier , John Lennon , Paul Simon , Bob Dylan , Bruno Bettelheim and many others and edited them.

The American literary magazine The Paris Review made an interview with Gottlieb and published it in its series of interviews with famous writers, Gottlieb being the only editor and editor included. The interview appeared in volume 1 of the collection of these interviews, which consists of four volumes and has been published by Picador.

Working method

In an interview with the Paris Review in 1994, Gottlieb stated that he had to "surrender" to a book. "The more you surrender, the more annoying the mistakes. I read manuscripts very quickly as soon as I get them. I usually don't use a pencil the first time I read, I just read to get a first impression. When I do When I've finished reading, I call the author and say that I think it's very good (or whatever like that), but that I see weaknesses "here" and "here." At this point, I don't know why I think that, I just think it. Then I read the manuscript again more slowly and look for the passages that caused me negative reactions and try to find out what caused each one. I mark those passages. On this second pass I think I'm looking for solutions - maybe this part should be expanded, maybe there is too much of "this" there so that "that" is affected.

Others

For many years, Gottlieb was a board member of the New York City Ballet . Various books by authors who were active in dance, such as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Margot Fonteyn , published by Gottlieb , were on the same line . He also works as a dance critic for the New York Observer .

In 2016 Gottlieb was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

  • George Ballanchine: The Ballet Maker , Harper Collins / Atlas Books, Eminent Lives Series , New York 2004, ISBN 0-06-075070-7
  • Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt , Yale University Press, Jewish Lives Series , New Haven, Conn. (et al.) 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-14127-6
  • Avid reader: a life , New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016, ISBN 978-0-374-27992-9

As editor

  • Reading Dance: A Gathering of Memoirs, Reportage, Criticizm, Profiles, Interviews, and some Uncategorizable Extras , edited and with a foreword by Robert Gottlieb, Pantheon Books 2008, ISBN 978-0-375-42122-8
  • John Cheever : Diaries . Ed .: Robert Gottlieb. 1st edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-00896-X (American English: The journals of John Cheever . New York 1991.).

literature

  • Philip Gourevitch, The Paris Review Interviews , Volume 1, Picador, New York 2006, ISBN 0-312-36175-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Paris Review Interviews, Volume 1, p. 337
  2. ^ The Paris Review Interviews, Volume 1, p. 336
  3. ↑ The Paris Review Interviews, Volume 1, pp. 350–351
  4. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gottlieb, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottlieb, Robert Adams (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH new York