Robert Giroux, Editor

Jack Kerouac’s editor died today at the age of 94, having lived twice as long as his legendary author.

He was T.S. Eliot’s American editor and published the American edition of George Orwell’s 1984, accepting it despite the objection of his immediate superior, whose wife had found some of the novel’s passages distasteful. He introduced a long roster of illustrious writers, publishing first books by, among others, Jean Stafford, Robert Lowell, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O’Connor, Randall Jarrell, William Gaddis, and Susan Sontag. He also edited Virginia Woolf, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Bishop, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy, Donald Barthelme, Grace Paley, Derek Walcott, and William Golding.

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