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▪ 2009American editor and publisherborn April 8, 1914, Jersey City, N.J.died Sept. 5, 2008, Tinton Falls, N.J.introduced and guided many of the top authors of the 20th century in a lengthy career in which he ascended to partner (1964) and chairman (1973) of the distinguished publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which became known for its literary fiction. Giroux published the debut novels of numerous significant writers, including Jean Stafford, Robert Lowell, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, and Susan Sontag. Giroux began his editing career in 1940 at Harcourt, Brace, & Co., rising to become executive editor in 1948. He became disillusioned, however, when the company refused to allow him to publish J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and in 1955 he took his services to Farrar, Straus & Co. (from 1964 Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Such was the esteem in which writers held him that some 15 authors, notably T.S. Eliot, Malamud, and O'Connor, made the move with him.
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Universalium. 2010.
