Robert A. Gottlieb

Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster (1955-68), Knopf (1968-87), and The New Yorker (1987-92). He made his name in publishing while still a young assistant at Simon & Schuster by championing and collaborating with Joseph Heller to produce Heller's successful first novel, Catch-22. Gottlieb has edited countless best-selling novels as well as modern classics of biography, and is a biographer himself. During the late 1990s, Gottlieb became a dance critic for the New York Observer and a frequent book reviewer for both the New York Observer and the New York Review of Books.