Robert Giroux died in his sleep on 5th September. He was 94.
Giroux was the American editor of T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor, whom he brought with him when he joined publishing house Farrar & Straus in 1964. The company then changed its name to Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Giroux worked with and developed many important authors including Jack Kerouac,George Orwell, Derek Walcott, Jean Stafford, Robert Lowell, and Bernard Malamud.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux publishes National Book Award winners Madeleine L'Engle, William Steig, Louis Sachar and Polly Harvath. Other children's and YA authors published by FSG are Natalie babbitt, Roald Dahl, Jack Gantos, George Selden and Peter Sis.
Read The New York Times' obituary here.
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