Robert Gottlieb

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Robert Gottlieb (born April 29, 1931 in New York City, New York) is an American writer and renowned editor in the book publishing business.

Gottlieb is a graduate of Columbia University. He is perhaps best known for discovering and editing Catch-22 by the then unknown Joseph Heller. Gottlieb has been Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and in 1987 he succeeded William Shawn as editor of The New Yorker until 1992 when he was replaced by Tina Brown.

He's also been the subject of controversy involving rejecting the work of John Kennedy Toole (Pulitzer Prize winner of 'A Confederacy of Dunces"). Toole went into despair and later committed suicide in 1969.

For many years Gottlieb was associated with New York City Ballet, serving as a member of its board of directors. In this vein, he published several books by people from the dance world including Mikhail Baryshnikov and Margot Fonteyn.
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Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Its main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City.
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Catch-22

Author Joseph Heller
Cover artist Paul Bacon [1]
Country USA
Language English
Genre(s) Satire
Historical fiction
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date 1961
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Joseph Heller
Born: May 1 1923(1923--) [1]
Brooklyn, New York [1]
Died: November 12 1999 (aged 76) [1]
Long Island, New York [1]
Occupation: Novelist
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Simon & Schuster, Inc. is a publishing house founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster. It is notable for its position as one of the four largest English-language publishers in the world (the "Big Four") alongside Random House, Penguin, and
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Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi trademark (shown at right).
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William Shawn (August 31, 1907 – December 8, 1992) was an American magazine editor who edited The New Yorker from 1952 until 1987.

"Mr. Shawn," as he was nearly always known, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Benjamin W. and Anna (Bransky) Chon.
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The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. Originally a weekly, the magazine is now published 47 times per year with five (usually more expansive) issues covering two-week spans.
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Tina Brown, Lady Evans (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, a personal friend.
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John Kennedy Toole
Born: November 17 1937(1937--)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Died: March 26 1969 (aged 33)
New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation: novelist, teacher, soldier

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A Confederacy of Dunces

Author John Kennedy Toole
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Comedy
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Publication date 1980
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New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin.

The company grew from an earlier troupe known as the Ballet Society.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov

Alexandra Danilova and Mikhail Baryshnikov in the Hamburg Opera House, 1976.
Birth name Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov
Born January 28 1948 (1948--)
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Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE, (18 May, 1919, Reigate, Surrey, England - 21 February, 1991, Panama City, Panama), the English assoluta, was considered the greatest ballerina of her time.
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