Robert B. Silvers
Robert Benjamin Silvers (born December 31, 1929 in Mineola , New York ; died March 20, 2017 in New York City ) was co-editor of the New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017.
Life
Robert Benjamin Silvers grew up in Long Island and attended the University of Chicago . He studied law at Yale Law School , but dropped out and started working as a press clerk at Chester Bowles in 1950 . During his military service he was employed as a press officer in Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po . In Paris, Silvers was then employed by the Paris Review under George Plimpton . Back in New York, he worked for Harper's Magazine from 1959 to 1963 .
Silvers founded The New York Review of Books with Barbara Epstein in 1963 , which he directed with her for forty years and alone after her death in 2006. In addition to the magazine, they created the "New York Review Books", in the series of which Silvers also published various anthologies.
Silvers received the National Humanities Medal in 2012 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2011 and also the National Book Award . In France he was holder of the Ordre national du Mérite and Knight of the Legion of Honor .
He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996 and an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy since 2013 . He was an honorary doctor from Harvard University , Columbia University and Oxford University .
literature
- The wild years of a magazine. Robert B. Silvers: The editor-in-chief talks about his life's work . In: ZEITMagazin , issue 9, 2015
- Robert Silvers , obituary, in: The Times , March 29, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert B. Silvers in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Silvers, Robert B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Silvers, Robert Benjamin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mineola , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th March 2017 |
| Place of death | New York City |