" Many happy working relationships are detailed in "Avid Reader.
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Satya Nadella, Microsoft's boss (pictured), is a particularly avid reader.
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Once an avid reader, Ms. Brunn now listens to audiobooks.
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As an avid reader, I continuously consume stories and knowledge.
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On top of running her business, she's an avid reader.
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Sherri is a self-described "news junkie" and an avid reader.
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Creator Jaap Meijers writes: My girlfriend is a *very* avid reader.
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He's an avid reader, having indulged in quite the book collection.
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If you're an avid reader, this might enhance your reading experience.
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Chanel, 16, was an avid reader and a straight-A student.
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Melinda Gates, like her husband, Bill Gates, is an avid reader.
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Bill Gates, the world&aposs richest man, is an avid reader.
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She was an avid reader, her father Rob Tibbetts told the newspaper.
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She was a lonely, brainy kid, as well as an avid reader.
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And Bush was an "avid reader," according to former advisor Karl Rove.
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"She was an avid reader who loved running and dancing," they said.
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She is a scuba diver, an avid reader and a global traveler.
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Bill Gates is an avid reader and has quite the book collection.
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He was an avid reader and "a gentle giant of sorts," Lambert said.
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Bill Gates is an avid reader: he consumes about 50 books a year.
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It's no secret that actress and activist Emma Watson is an avid reader.
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She was an avid reader, a writer and also a lover of publishing.
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Interest in digital technology and an avid reader of business news is helpful.
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Despite my subpar performance in English classes, I've always been an avid reader.
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"Being an avid reader, that spoke to me on personal level," she said.
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I was an avid reader as a kid, completely obsessed with science fiction.
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Reprinted by permission of Avid Reader Press, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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She is an avid reader and says it helps her better advise clients.
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Ms. Cowley described Hadiya as an avid reader who particularly enjoyed vampire stories.
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No, absolutely, and again, I am an avid reader of the New York Times.
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Heidi VanSumeren, 8, is an avid reader who also designs books of her own.
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I mean, I kind of am, because I was an avid reader growing up.
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Darren Drake Drake, 32, was an avid reader and was always helping his parents.
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For the avid reader in your life, consider gifting an original Kindle from Amazon.
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She was an avid reader, with relatively few opinions about the things she read.
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Cuban is an avid reader, and espouses the benefits of scouring books for ideas.
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Keith was also an avid reader, reading multiple books in a week, and loved sports.
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I read as a kid but I didn't become an avid reader until much later.
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Elliott gives the tale a nice twist, showing the wolf ultimately becoming an avid reader.
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" Eighty-five years later, Munger is still an avid reader: "My children laugh at me.
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Cuban is an avid reader, and says it is an important way to stay sharp.
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Bill Gates is an avid reader who has recommended hundreds of books on his personal blog.
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If you're an avid reader with an ever-expanding library, these costs can add up quickly.
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An avid reader, his literary tastes range from Aristotle to sports biographies to self-help manuals.
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More than simply being a diversion, it "put me on the path of an avid reader".
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She had a degree in mass communication and was an avid reader of celebrity news sites.
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As an avid reader, I've spent a good portion of my life deciding what to read next.
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Hart describes her daughter as kind and giving, a "smart and funny" girl and an avid reader.
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Bill Gates is an avid reader and it appears that his youngest daughter Phoebe is as well.
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Schulz never received a university degree, but was an avid reader, and started his own local bookstore.
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Now 30, she works on behalf of women around the world, and she is an avid reader.
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The great thing about being an avid reader is that I'm always excited about the next book.
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Mr Jennings, though an avid reader of Ian Fleming's books, thought that the thriller genre had become "stale".
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Jose, who asked that his last name not be used, is an avid reader—and a tuberculosis survivor.
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He was an avid reader of racist material online, though he did not belong to any hate groups.
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In "Avid Reader," he describes helping the novelist and critic Cynthia Ozick overcome her qualms about her writing.
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All the books in "Avid Reader" do make way for some pages about the author's non-print life.
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She grew up in New Jersey and quickly grew into an intellectually curious young person and avid reader.
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Chelsea had very recently started writing fan fiction for herself after being an avid reader for some time.
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I'm an avid reader and have read 50 to 70 books every year for the last 10 years.
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Bezos' love for the quote is also aligned with his bookish tendencies: He's known as an avid reader.
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I have always been an avid reader, but I took this pastime to the next level in prison.
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But "I've never been an avid reader of leadership books in general," he explains in a recent blog post.
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Its display and backlight are better than average, and its asymmetrical design is purpose-constructed for the avid reader.
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If your wife is an avid reader and doesn't already own a Kindle, this one is a no brainer.
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As an avid reader, I realized that the term "unicorn" has been overly reported on Western/China/India startups.
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Barack Obama is known as an avid reader, and often takes to Facebook to share lists of his recommendations.
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She was also an avid reader of the Twitter hashtag #BlackSalonProblems, where users chronicle their own misadventures at hairstylists.
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A sixth grader and avid reader, she helps her father deliver books to the female members of the library.
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Black history buff Prince was an avid reader of Dr. John Henrik Clarke and other Afro-centric historians and philosophers.
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I went on to become an editor, writer and avid reader, and it remains one of my most beloved books.
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In 2011, near the peak of China's openness to new ideas, Mr. Ren, an avid reader, started a book club.
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In my family, everyone was an avid reader and addressed each other as if we lived in a Victorian novel.
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Less a proponent of early retirement and more interested in financial independence, Marberry is an avid reader of investment information.
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An intelligent child and avid reader, he won a place at a prestigious local school before studying at Oxford University.
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She remembered him as "one of the brightest students" she ever taught, calling him an "avid reader" with a big vocabulary.
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She used to be an avid reader and writer, but because of all the treatments, it destroyed her ability to concentrate.
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Though an avid reader — his dresser is buried under psychology classics, as varied as Dale Carnegie and Machiavelli — he failed English.
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But right now, Tsai — an avid reader of Forbes who spends every Friday night watching "Shark Tank " — is settled on business.
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Kindle Paperwhite If your wife is an avid reader and doesn't already own a Kindle, this one is a no brainer.
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He was an avid reader of The Economist, while publicly dismissing it as the "European organ of the aristocracy of finance".
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As a divorced grandmother known as an avid reader of literature, she was an exception in the male-dominated political scene.
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" He is also a bachelor and an avid reader and student of military history, earning a second nickname: "The Warrior Monk.
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The Duchess of Sussex is an avid reader, and has recommended some of her favorite books to fans over the years.
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Even as a child, Twombly was an avid reader, fascinated by mythology and ancient history, with an interest in making art.
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"That she was such an intense, true and avid reader was very exciting and a little bit shocking," Ms. Tramble said.
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Until that moment, Claire -- an avid reader -- had yet to find any role models, examples of sick people doing remarkable things.
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For instance, the self-made billionaire is an avid reader and once admitted that he consumes about 50 books a year.
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After reflecting for a moment, he recalled that Mr. Baker had been an avid reader, and not just of comic strips.
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Still, García supposedly made the most of the confusion and became an avid reader of philosophy during his time away from work.
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Since his father was an avid reader of Il Giornale, it was the only paper Zingales junior turned up to school with.
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An avid reader and voracious learner, Hamilton dreamed of finding a way off the island where he had experienced so much hardship.
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"That's what the readers tell me, it's changed," confirmed Simon, who admitted to never having been an avid reader of Charlie Hebdo.
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As a biracial Asian-American kid who grew up in Chicago, I was an avid reader before I was into anything else.
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Trump is an avid reader of Time magazine, for example, co-owned by Marc Benioff, whose firm Salesforce also serves government agencies.
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Kershaw, for example, is an avid reader of biographies — specifically those about iconic leaders like Margaret Thatcher, John Wooden, and Abraham Lincoln.
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I was an avid reader and dreamer, and I got the chance to go to Italy on my own in my 20s.
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At first, I was intent on not overselling — a game plan that materialized into a very boring profile: Mom, Lawyer, Avid-Reader.
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You must also be an avid reader, be a hard worker, and always [be] ready and willing to do a great job.
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" Thoreau, too, was an avid reader of Humboldt's books and, according to Wulf, "Humboldt's name appeared regularly in Thoreau's journals and notebooks.
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As an avid reader, he realized that the only way he would come to terms with being gay was to read about it.
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Once again, the American Idol winner has taken inspiration from daughter (and avid reader) River Rose, who turned 3 years old this month.
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Match Book Dear Match Book, I am a recently separated university English professor, and an avid reader of poetry, short fiction and novels.
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The writing is sensuous, and that in itself quickly pulled me in: I became an avid reader, curious to learn what happens next.
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Charlotte is an avid reader of soapy romances, and when we are in her head, it can be a purple storm of banality.
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She was, however, an avid reader and keen observer of the political happenings of the time, acting as an unofficial adviser to her husband.
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Shoshanna Evers: I've always been an avid reader of books of all genres, and writing was just a natural offshoot of that for me.
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He was an avid reader — he maintained a long-running contest with Karl Rove to see who could read more books in a year.
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She was very literate even though she didn't have a formal education, and she gave that to my mom, who was an avid reader.
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I thought she was an avid reader and writer, and that she just didn't do it when I was around, because we were hanging out.
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Like other successful moguls — such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos — business and life strategist and self-made multimillionaire Tony Robbins is an avid reader.
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I usually either read books that my mom, also an avid reader (and a librarian), loans me or that I borrow from the local library.
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If you're an avid reader of ye olde internet, you may have noticed a recent uptick in stories about Netflix's Lovesick (formerly titled Scrotal Recall).
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In that Kupka was an avid reader of mystical and contemplative material, it is legitimate to see an image of the artist himself in it.
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We applaud you for being an avid reader, but it's 2019 and it's probably time to upgrade to an e-reader like the Kindle Paperwhite.
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This is the first major book acquisition for the publisher's new Avid Reader imprint, which is being led by Jofie Ferrari-Adler and Ben Loehnen.
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Both parents encouraged Ms. Severin and her brother to draw, and she became an avid reader of adventure books by authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Gates — an avid reader — also recommends "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui and "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" among others.
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An avid reader at the New York Public Library, he won a scholarship to New York University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1940.
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As an avid reader of obituaries, I've been struck by how many people these days are succumbing to pancreatic cancer, a cancer long considered rare.
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This man, Richard, was an avid reader, someone who used books to educate himself despite being brought up poor in the 1950s and '60s South.
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If anything, as an avid reader, I was ashamed that it took me until I was 25 to first pick up a copy of the book.
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"Avid Reader," which Farrar, Straus and Giroux published last week, has generated the kind of rapturous praise that has often been lavished on Mr. Gottlieb's authors.
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The books of quotations that rarely let you down are commonplace books, those intellectual scrapbooks made for personal use and compiled by a single avid reader.
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He wrote a statement expressing solidarity with the women's strike on International Women's Day; he is an avid reader of the academic and activist Angela Davis.
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Match Book Dear Match Book, I am an avid reader of detective stories, and I am particularly interested in those with a strong sense of place.
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"Everyone loves the sex scenes between Harry and Draco because their sexual tension is so high in the books," one avid reader named Mackenzie told me.
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In addition to focusing on his philanthropic work, Mr. Gates, 62, is an avid reader, who frequently comments on books on his popular Gates Notes blog.
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Her literary taste ran more to the experimental women her mother, an avid reader, had raised her on: Katherine Mansfield, Djuna Barnes, Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys.
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As an avid reader of historical fiction, I loved being able to absorb the nuance of this moment through the emotions and memories of the characters.
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The young Canestrari found his new boss "very clever, interesting, and exciting," an avid reader of history, comics, and science fiction, particularly the novels of Isaac Asimov.
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Trump himself is reportedly an avid reader of the site, frequently re-tweeting its articles and using them as sources for some of his most controversial claims.
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Make It New Grads If avid reader Bill Gates could give every member of the class of 2017 a graduation present, it would be, fittingly, a book.
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Mr. Obama, an avid reader with a deep appreciation of pop culture, not only celebrated art during his presidency but also brought it into the White House.
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"My mother was an avid reader of detective fiction, and she brought 'Murder on the Orient Express' home when I was in my teens," Mr. Branagh said.
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I'm quite the avid reader and have surpassed my one-book-a-month New Year's resolution, as I am now on book 15 and it's only August.
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All he'd done was publish a short post that morning on the Facebook page of Avid Reader, a Brisbane independent bookshop where he's the social media manager.
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He has been an avid reader for much longer, and has read 23 books since he started keeping count this spring, to go with his 73 saves.
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And Taylor, if you happen to be an avid reader of online crossword blogs, I wouldn't object to some backstage passes the next time you're in Boston.
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If you're an avid reader of tech news, you likely often have a good idea of what Apple is going to announce at any given product event.
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My mom quickly turned into an avid reader of blogs, and if you say anything bad in the comments, she will text me about it so watch out.
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Pauly D knows what's up, he says they communicate all the time -- and you can do the same, because Mike's an avid reader who loves getting fan mail.
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What Ms. Rosnau Did and Why, in Her Own Words I've been home-schooled for my entire life and have always been an avid reader of all things.
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"I had no interest in writing a memoir," Mr. Gottlieb said during a recent interview at his airy Midtown Manhattan townhouse to discuss "Avid Reader," his new memoir.
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Charlie, an avid reader, no longer has to walk 50 blocks uptown to borrow books from a shelter on Manhattan's Upper East Side and lug them back downtown.
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"I think they're all solid choices to help wrap up your 2019 or start 2020 on a good note," the avid reader writes on his blog, Gates Notes.
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I am an avid reader of travel blogs, especially those run by Black women, so I spent an entire year bookmarking photos on Instagram and jotting down restaurants.
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When Safiyya Hosein, an avid reader and comics writer, started to get frustrated with how Muslim characters are represented in fictional stories, she decided to help change the narrative.
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He was an avid reader, and when he started on Colette—I've never seen him fall into a book like that, and that guy can fall into a book.
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If you're an avid reader of the news, or even just a casual internet user, then you know the state of the world isn't exactly great at the moment.
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Like many within the artistic vanguard in Mexico, the artist was an avid reader of scientific texts, and was fascinated by developing theories of relativity, electricity, optics, and atmosphere.
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Reprinted by permission of Avid Reader Press, a Simon & Schuster imprint When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission.
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This would make sense for families with an existing book collection – because their child is older, an avid reader, or because they have hand-me-down books from other children.
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Insofar as there's a main character, it's Franny, who after babyhood becomes an avid reader, drops out of law school, dates a successful novelist and remains devoted to her family.
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"Avid Reader" manages to cover all this territory, as well as Mr. Gottlieb's decades-long association with New York City Ballet, with grace and guile and a sometimes-barbed wit.
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And as Violet — every utterance a scalpel sheathed in velvet — schemes to evict her, Florence finds an unlikely ally in Mr. Brundish (Bill Nighy), a reclusive misanthrope and avid reader.
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Ms. Hughes is an avid reader, but her bookshelves indicate her tastes for fiction run more to Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" than Mr. Roth's.
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An avid reader, Mr. Mattis also says he wants the Defense Department's regional desks to be able to think the way people in their respective countries would think, officials said.
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His girlfriend, an avid reader and English literature teacher, wanted a clock for their living room, so Meijers hacked an older model Kindle to display the time using actual literary quotes.
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Born in 1931, he grew up in Houston, a lonely child, bedridden by polio, and an avid reader of tawdry pulp magazines that specialized in bug-eyed-monsters and Venusian princesses.
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When asked to provide some insight into what Mr. Puzder was like away from the job, Mr. Haller said he was an avid reader who loved Ayn Rand, the libertarian novelist.
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One self-proclaimed avid reader listed just shy of 40 books and authors but failed to see that maybe he had some self-reflecting to do if no women made the cut.
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JOSEPHINE BERSEEHong Kong As an avid reader of The Economist and its publications, I feel deeply disappointed by the recent piece on Azerbaijan ("Heaping on the caviar diplomacy", 1843, October/November 2016).
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It should come as no surprise that the artist is an avid reader of stories about women escaping abuse, fighting the patriarchy with martial arts, and taking back control over their lives.
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I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of 2016, and in the aftermath of the election.
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In 1937, The New Yorker published James Thurber's "The Macbeth Murder Mystery," about an avid reader of Agatha Christie who picks up a paperback copy of "Macbeth," mistakenly assuming it's a detective story.
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"Put me down as questioning whether they can pull it off," said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist and former congressional staff member who described himself as an avid reader of Washington's political press.
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She was an avid reader from a young age, but said she never considered writing until after she and Mr. Byars had moved to Illinois, where he pursued a graduate degree in engineering.
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Given that the former president is known to be an avid reader, you can bet "An American Marriage," which was a New York Times best-seller, is going to be a good one.
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Ad blockers are becoming increasingly common, but if you're an avid reader, maybe you feel a little twinge of guilt at depriving your favorite website the smidgen of revenue it earns off your clicks.
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It wasn't because I was a particularly avid reader of Playboy, or because I had dreams of visiting the Playboy Mansion and seeing the founder himself sitting in his smoking jacket surrounded by women.
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Avid Reader, a delightful concoction of well-told vignettes from his stints at Simon & Schuster and Knopf, plus five years as the editor of The New Yorker, did away with my years-long impatience.
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Sewell, an avid reader of John Grisham novels, had been so appalled by what he observed, and so intrigued by the romanticism of going undercover, that he had decided to become a whistle-blower.
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Roberts is also a devotee of Bob Dylan, an avid reader of history, and the father of two children, etched in a public tableau from his 19603 confirmation, who will turn 20 this year.
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"I was thrilled that my child was such an avid reader, but he read so much that Bill's mother and I had to institute a rule: no books at the dinner table," he said.
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A keen wine collector who often grills for guests at his Nantucket home, Mr. Flannery, who is married and has three children, is an avid reader and enjoys attending R.E.M. and Natalie Merchant concerts.
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If you're an avid reader of Breitbart's European coverage, you could be forgiven for having thought a huge mob of extremist-sympathizers had burned down a German church to ring in the new year.
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An avid reader from a young age, Mr. Clements earned praise for his writing while attending Northwestern University, where one of his professors asked him to teach creative writing at summer high school workshops.
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Perhaps Genet, being an avid reader of both Mikhail Bakunin and Marcel Proust, and thus both an anarchist's anarchist and a writer's writer, left the solutions for America's trembling to the country's own imagination.
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On this week's podcast, Schama talks about "The Face of Britain"; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Robert Gottlieb discusses "Avid Reader"; and Gregory Cowles and John Williams on what people are reading.
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The one major difference between them is that Bibi is very smart, an avid reader and a deft tactician in managing relations with Israel's neighbors and big powers, such as America, Russia, India and China.
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As an avid reader of history, particularly those writers who recreate the lives of American leaders who shaped the 20th century, I especially admire David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Robert A. Caro and Jon Meacham.
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There, Marchand rides daily on a stationary bike and is an avid reader of L'Humanite, a communist newspaper founded in 1904, at the dawn of a new century and just seven years before he was born.
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An avid reader who often posts photos of her favorites on Instagram, she started optioning book after book, partly motivated by a conversation she had with her husband, Jim Toth, an agent at Creative Artists Agency.
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That's because Microsoft founder, philanthropist, and avid reader Bill Gates revealed his summer book recommendations in a blog post on Monday — and you're going to want to pore over all of these books during your next vacation.
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My parents would say, what are your God given gifts, what do you love to do, and my dad was an avid reader and he would always say to thyself be true, and be your authentic self.
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"Somebody could totally run this scene," is how Loudermilk puts it to his roommate Harry Rego, an avid reader prone to dissociative moods who looks like a "hobbit" and is as socially awkward as Loudermilk is ostentatious.
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Friends and family have found out about my book through Facebook; I've reached a bunch of bloggers and avid reader-types through Twitter; I may have even a picked up a sale or two through Instagram hashtags.
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As a bookseller for 20 years, and an avid reader for twice that, I've enjoyed thousands of books, but the more books I read, it seems the fewer have the power to take me into unknown territory.
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In the same vein, avid reader Bush Hager — mom to daughters Poppy Louise, 3½, and Margaret "Mila" Laura, 6 next month — loves using the Calm app to meditate and also listen to stories with her girls before bed.
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Children's Books I was always an avid reader, the kind of kid who'd wander through the library stacks, running my fingers along the hardcovers' spines, judging them not by their covers but by size (the bigger, the better).
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Robert Gottlieb's "Avid Reader" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) is a spritz of that postwar elixir, the memoir of a man who seems to have loved (with a few amusing exceptions) every author he edited and every book he published.
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"I found a notation from Stevenson's stepson that his mother, Fanny Osbourne-Stevenson, was an avid reader of 'The Lancet,' in order to find anything that might help her husband," Dr. Schultz said, referring to the venerable medical journal.
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" Asked in an interview with Delta Sky magazine when and where he finds time to be creative, Mr. Miranda, an avid reader of books and enthusiast for unfettered downtime, replied: "The good idea comes in the moment of rest.
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This four-part BBC series stars Jemima Rooper as Amanda, an avid reader and Austen fan who ends up trapped in the world of Pride and Prejudice while Elizabeth Bennet (Gemma Arteron) takes her place in the modern-day real world.
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In the email, Ms. Parker — a subway rider and avid reader of the -WestView News, a West Village neighborhood newspaper — described how small-business owners in the neighborhood were being squeezed out by rising rents and onerous fines from the city.
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She's an avid reader, with a goal of reading 52 books a year; she is the editor in chief of a digital magazine, Increment, published by her new employer, Stripe; she studied physics at the University of Pennsylvania; she wants to be a mathematician.
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This week, the two books I'm especially interested in are "Avid Reader," by the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb, subject of a recent profile in The Times, and "The Face of Britain," the new book by Simon Schama, produced in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery of London.
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Here is what he said: I mean, it certainly seems like Father John Misty, a reportedly avid reader of music blogs, is simply reacting to the news of the day—that is, that Taylor Swift threatened a small music blog with legal action because they compared her with Hitler.
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I was there in October, and I keep in touch with everybody over the phone, and, of course, I'm an avid reader of A Better Mount Pleasant, the Facebook group that Kelly has, and the Journal Times is doing good coverage of Foxconn and everything that's happening in the village.
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As an avid reader of her books when I was young, I pretty much had to forget everything I knew and held dear about the books I had as a kid, and try to approach these as "just another book we are making a cover for" — which is pretty much impossible!
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I was an avid reader of science fiction, an obsession that began for me, like for so many, with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and moved on to books like "The Chrysalids" and "The Day of the Triffids," by John Wyndham, and the Chronicles of Amber, by Roger Zelazny.
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Always an avid reader, my first thoughts of the persistent fog was how similar it was to its description in some of my favorite gothic novels, like Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre," Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Bram Stoker's "Dracula," or even Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
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It's not just that his work occasionally alludes to poets such as Joe Brainard and Bill Berkson, or that he's an avid reader of poetry and friendly with Bay Area poets, but that his artistic methods, thought processes, aesthetic, and values accord with those of many poets and their work.
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For those nonsocialists who put political equality first and those socialists who do worry over it, this mobilization of capitalist oligarchy under social democratic auspices also remains a first-order threat to democracy—one all too prone to perpetuating a structure of domination, as any avid reader of Nordic detective fiction can tell you.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "After Birth" by Elisa Albert "Avid Reader" by Robert Gottlieb "The Risk Pool" by Richard Russo "Interchange" by Ken Jaworowski "The Green Road" by Anne Enright We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "Transit" by Rachel Cusk "The Sellout" by Paul Beatty "Avid Reader" by Robert Gottlieb "The Children Act" by Ian McEwan "The Fall Guy" by James Lasdun We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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The Knopf stretch of "Avid Reader" gallops through the glamour of Lauren Bacall, who wrote her memoirs on the company premises; the popular histories of Barbara Tuchman ("Her sense of entitlement was sometimes hard to deal with"); and the evolution of Salman Rushdie ("From the moment he won the Booker he seemed more demanding, less cordial").
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In this he was joined by fellow supercentenarians James McCoubrey, who frequented senior online chat rooms, pretending he was merely in his 70s, Will Miles Clark, who had just driven himself from Tucson, Az., to a family birthday party in Denver, Colo when he donated his DNA, and Goldie Michelson, an avid reader of library books.
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In 2016, Robert Gottlieb published "Avid Reader," a legacy-solidifying memoir recapping his long career in the enchanted forest of hardcovers and best-seller lists as editor in chief of Simon & Schuster and, later, Alfred A. Knopf — a marathon glory run during which he coaxed, cajoled, shaped, trimmed and talcum-powdered a pantheon of American and British authors, including John Cheever, John le Carré, Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, Edna O'Brien and so many other luminati.
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