Avid Reader: A Life

by Robert Gottlieb and Robert Gottlieb

Book Overview

Winner of the Anne M. Sperber Prize

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time.

After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert 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, having discovered and edited Catch-22...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374279926
• ISBN13: 9780374279929
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"