Robert Gottlieb’s net worth at the time of death – Robert Gottlieb, an illustrious editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker had an estimated net worth of $8 million at the time of death, according to several multiple sources.
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Born on April 29, 1931, Gottlieb edited novels by:
- John Cheever,
- Doris Lessing,
- Chaim Potok,
- Charles Portis,
- Salman Rushdie,
- John Gardner,
- Len Deighton,
- John le Carré,
- Ray Bradbury,
- Elia Kazan,
- Margaret Drabble,
- Michael Crichton,
- Mordecai Richler and
- Toni Morrison.
He also edited non-fiction books by:
- Bill Clinton,
- Janet Malcolm,
- Katharine Graham,
- Nora Ephron,
- Katharine Hepburn,
- Barbara Tuchman,
- Jessica Mitford,
- Robert Caro,
- Antonia Fraser,
- Lauren Bacall,
- Liv Ullmann,
- Paul Simon,
- Bob Dylan,
- Bruno Bettelheim,
- Carl Schorske and many others.
Gottlieb began his career at Simon & Schuster as an editorial assistant to Jack Goodman, the editor-in-chief, and in 1968 moved to Alfred A. Knopf as editor-in-chief, eventually becoming president, together with Nina Bourne and Anthony Schulte.
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He worked with Simon & Schuster and Knopf for three decades, turning hundreds of manuscripts into well-received novels, many of which sold millions of copies, won prizes, and made authors wealthy and famous.
He departed Alfred A. Knopf in 1987 to succeed William Shawn as editor of The New Yorker and stayed in that position until 1992.
Since 1998, he contributed frequently to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review.
Gottlieb was a member of the board of directors of the New York City Ballet for many years and published numerous books by dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Margot Fonteyn.
He was also a member of the Miami City Ballet’s Board of Trustees.
Turn Every Page, a documentary filmed by Gottlieb’s daughter, Lizzie Gottlieb, chronicling Gottlieb’s partnerships with writer Robert Caro, was published in 2022.
Gottlieb died on June 14, 2023, at the age of 92.
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