The Consummate New Yorker: Books and Other Collections from Robert Gottlieb, Publisher and Editor

Robert Gottlieb had a long and distinguished career as an editor and writer, having served as the head of Alfred A. Knopf, the editor in chief of Simon and Schuster, and the editor of The New Yorker. As an editor he worked with many notable authors, including Toni Morrison, John Le Carré, Bruno Bettelheim, Katharine Graham, Doris Lessing, Bill Clinton, Nora Ephron, Bill Gates, and Joseph Heller—whose debut novel, Catch 22, helped establish Gottlieb’s reputation as a keen discerner of literary talent. In recent decades, he wrote extensively for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New...