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brings to the task all the interpretive acuity and literary elegance that distinguished his previous biographies of Theodore Roosevelt

" Mick Brannigan

Avid Reader: A Life Viking and offers insights into theWinner of the Anne M. Sperber Prize A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time. After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a dozen years later, he was the editor in chief, having discovered and edited Catch 22 and The American Way of Death, among