1. Robert Giroux was an American book editor and publisher.
20 Facts About Robert Giroux
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The youngest of five children, Giroux was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Arthur J Giroux, a foreman for a silk manufacturer, and Katharine Lyons Giroux, a grade-school teacher.
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Robert Giroux was one of five children: Arnold, Lester, Estele, Josephine and Robert, and grew up in the old Irish-Catholic West Side of Jersey City.
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Robert Giroux has three nieces, Maclovia, Kathleen and Roberta, whom he was close to throughout his life.
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Robert Giroux attended Regis High School in Manhattan, but dropped out during the Depression, to take a job with local newspaper, the Jersey Journal.
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At Columbia, too, Robert Giroux met a number of contemporaries who were destined for greatness in arts and letters, among them his classmate John Berryman, Herman Wouk, Thomas Merton, Ad Reinhardt, and John Latouche.
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Robert Giroux started his career with a job with the Columbia Broadcasting System in public relations.
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Robert Giroux published an article about the "Capture at Truk" which made the cover of Life magazine.
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Robert Giroux published many novels rejected by other publishing houses, such as Bernard Malamud's The Natural, Kerouac's The Town and the City and O'Connor's Wise Blood.
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Robert Giroux worked on Thomas Merton's autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.
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In 1947, Frank Morley left the company and returned to London, and a year later, Robert Giroux was promoted to editor-in-chief, reporting to Eugene Reynal, an Ivy League scholar whom Brace had brought in to replace Morley.
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From 1948 to 1955, Robert Giroux continued to edit important works.
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Robert Giroux worked with Kerouac on his first novel, The Town and the City, and on the manuscript for his Beat classic On the Road.
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Robert Giroux authored The Education of an Editor, The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and A Deed of Death, an investigation of the 1922 murder of the Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor.
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Robert Giroux did not complete his memoirs because he said he did not want to write negatively about Straus.
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Once Robert Giroux suggested to Eliot that editors were mostly failed writers, to which Eliot replied: "so are most writers".
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Robert Giroux received the Alexander Hamilton Medal, the Columbia College Alumni Association's highest honor, in 1987, the same year he received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Robert Giroux was awarded a Special Citation at the National Board of Review Awards 1989.
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In 1952, Robert Giroux married Dona Carmen Natica de Arango y del Valle,[1] an advisor to the Holy See Missions Delegation to the United Nations they divorced in 1969.
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Robert Giroux died on September 5,2008, at Seabrook Village, an independent-living center, in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, aged 94.