He's edited Caro, le Carre and 'Catch-22,' but doesn't mind if you don't know his name
Briefly

Robert Gottlieb describes editing as a service job: "Our job is to serve the word, serve the author, serve the text."Thomas Victor/Courtesy of the Estate of Thomas Victor, LLC / Sony Pictures Classics At 91, Robert Gottlieb is perhaps the most acclaimed book editor of his time.He started out in 1955 and has been working in publishing ever since  serving as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker.
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