“Robert Gottlieb’s near-legendary status in the publishing world owes much to sheer anomaly. Running Simon & Schuster, and then Knopf, he had just two interests: the books he edited and the books he balanced (”What people forget about Bob,’ says Charles McGrath, editor of The New York Times Book Review and Gottlieb’s deputy at the New Yorker, ‘he was a terrific businessman’). – Boston Globe