Robert Giroux (1914–2008)
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Editor and author Robert Giroux was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 8, 1914. He dropped out of Regis High School shortly before graduation in order to take a newspaper job with The Jersey Journal. He received a scholarship to Columbia University, became editor-in-chief of The Columbia vis mere Review, and graduated in 1936. He joined the public relations department at the Columbia Broadcasting System and worked there for four years before finding his first editing job at Harcourt, Brace, and Company in 1940. During World War II, he served in the Navy. He joined Farrar, Straus and Company in 1955 as editor-in-chief and almost 20 of his writers at Harcourt followed him including T. S. Eliot, Bernard Malamud, and Flannery O'Connor. He became a partner in the publishing company in 1964 and eventually chairman. He also wrote several books including The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets, The Education of an Editor, and A Deed of Death: The Story Behind the Unsolved Murder of Hollywood Director William Desmond Taylor. He was the president of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures from 1975 to 1982. He received numerous awards for his work including The Alexander Hamilton Medal from the Columbia University alumni association in 1987, the Mayoral Award of Honor for Art and Culture from the City of New York in 1989, and the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement in 2006. He died on September 5, 2008 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Robert Giroux
The Complete Stories 81 eksemplarer
A Deed Of Death: The Story of the Unsolved Murder of Hollywood Director William Desmond Taylor (1990) 37 eksemplarer
The Education of an Editor 2 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1914-04-08
- Dødsdag
- 2008-09-05
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Dødssted
- Tinton Falls, New Jersey, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Columbia University (BA ∙ 1936)
Regis High School, New York, New York, USA - Erhverv
- editor
publisher - Relationer
- Van Doren, Mark (teacher)
- Organisationer
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (vice president ∙ editor-in-chief ∙ director ∙ partner ∙ chaiman)
Harcourt, Brace & Co. (editor-in-chief)
United States Navy (intelligence office ∙ lieutenant commander)
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (president)
Columbia Broadcasting System - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Campion Award (1988)
Mayoral Award of Honor for Art and Culture, City of New York (1989)
Elmer Holmes Bobst Award in Arts and Letters, New York University (1988)
Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia University (1987)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, National Book Critics Circle Award (1987)
Special Citation, National Board of Review Awards (1989) (vis alle 7)
Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement (2006)
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Dark and clever, nobody gets at the human soul quite like Flannery O'Connor. She is slyly funny and grim all at once. I highly recommend a read through all her stories, though don't expect to fall asleep when you do. There are some real eye-openers in here.
This collection of Flannery O'Connor's stories revealed not only the common themes and style of O'Connor's writing (themes like freedom/free will, her use of sarcastic humor, the use of physical deformities to symbolize certain characteristics, etc.) but also her growth as a writer, from her writings as a student at the University of Iowa, until her death twenty years later. There is a sense in which perhaps O'Connor stories might be better enjoyed individually (some of her later writings are re-writes of her earlier works), but there was also value in reading these stories as a large group. I'd love to spend more time reading these stories and discussing them with fellow readers.… (mere)
This collection of Flannery O'Connor's stories revealed not only the common themes and style of O'Connor's writing (themes like freedom/free will, her use of sarcastic humor, the use of physical deformities to symbolize certain characteristics, etc.) but also her growth as a writer, from her writings as a student at the University of Iowa, until her death twenty years later. There is a sense in which perhaps O'Connor stories might be better enjoyed individually (some of her later writings are re-writes of her earlier works), but there was also value in reading these stories as a large group. I'd love to spend more time reading these stories and discussing them with fellow readers.… (mere)
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- 13
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- Medlemmer
- 182
- Popularitet
- #118,785
- Vurdering
- 4.3
- Anmeldelser
- 7
- ISBN
- 17
- Sprog
- 1
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