Robert Gottlieb has been the editor in chief of Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker. He is the author of Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhard, George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker, Lives and Letters (FSG, 2011), and Great Expectations and is the dance critic for The New York Observer.
Books in order of publication:
Nonfiction books
A Certain Style: The Art of the Plastic Handbag 1949-1959 (1988) (Knopf)
George Ballanchine: The Ballet Maker (2004) (Atlas Books/Harper Collins)
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt (2010) (Yale University Press)
Lives and Letters (2011) (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens (2012) (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Avid Reader: A Life (2016) (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Near-Death Experiences . . . and Others (2018) (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Garbo (2021) (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
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