Barbara Epstein

Barbara Epstein (1928–2006) worked in publishing and at The Partisan Review before becoming editor of The New York Review of Books in 1963. She began her publishing career at Doubleday & Co., where she served as junior editor after graduating from Radcliffe College in 1949. She was born Barbara Zimmerman in Boston, Massachusetts.

From the Review

March 18, 1982: An Appeal to General Jaruzelski (letter)

January 24, 1974: Marius Bewley Committee (letter)

January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)

July 13, 1967: Regis Debray (letter)

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