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Robert Gottlieb

Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb has been the editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, the head of Alfred A. Knopf, and the editor of The New Yorker. He has contributed frequently to The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, and is the author of Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker, Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt, and Avid Reader: A Life. In 2015, he was presented with the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts by the American Academy of Arts and Letter.


“Garbo Talks!” On the 1930 Sound Film That Gave Greta a Voice

Robert Gottlieb Describes the World’s Reaction to That “Husky, Throaty Contralto”
December 15, 2021  By Robert Gottlieb
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Robert Gottlieb on a Neglected Russian Classic

Western Readers, if They Know it at All, Think of it As the Novel
About a Man Who Never Gets Out of Bed
May 31, 2018  By Robert Gottlieb
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