Acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb, 92, who was editor in chief at Simon & Schuster and both president and editor in chief at Knopf, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. Gottlieb also served as the third-ever editor of the New Yorker from 1987 to 1992. As the New York Times notes, he “edited novels by, among many others, John le Carré, Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Joseph Heller, Doris Lessing and Chaim Potok; science fiction by Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; histories by Antonia Fraser and Barbara Tuchman; memoirs by former President Bill Clinton and Katharine Graham, the former publisher of The Washington […]
