Robert Adams Gottlieb was born on April 29,1931 and is an American writer and editor.
12 Facts About Robert Gottlieb
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Robert Gottlieb was born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1931 and grew up in Manhattan.
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Robert Gottlieb left in 1987 to succeed William Shawn as editor of The New Yorker, staying in that position until 1992.
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Robert Gottlieb has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review, and has been the dance critic for The New York Observer since 1999.
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Robert Gottlieb is the author of biographies of George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt, and the family of Charles Dickens, as well as of a collection of his critical essays.
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Robert Gottlieb edited three major anthologies: Reading Jazz, Reading Dance, and Reading Lyrics.
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Robert Gottlieb suffered some ignominy for rejecting A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, a book that later won the Pulitzer Prize when it was published posthumously after the author's suicide.
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For many years Robert Gottlieb was associated with New York City Ballet, serving as a member of its board of directors.
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Robert Gottlieb has published many books by people from the dance world, including Mikhail Baryshnikov and Margot Fonteyn.
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Robert Gottlieb is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Miami City Ballet.
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Robert Gottlieb married Muriel Higgins in 1952; they had one child, Roger.
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In 1969, Robert Gottlieb married Maria Tucci, an actress whose father, the novelist Niccolo Tucci, was one of Robert Gottlieb's writers.