Robert Gottlieb

Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of a biography of George Balanchine, the editor of the anthologies Reading Dance and Reading Jazz, and the dance critic of The New York Observer.
 (December 2009)

From the Review

December 3, 2009: Nearly Anything Goes

Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein

October 22, 2009: Who Was the Most Famous of All?

Joseph Jefferson: Dean of the American Theatre by Arthur W. Bloom

The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre by Benjamin McArthur

The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson by Joseph Jefferson

February 26, 2009: The Silent Superstar

Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance with Tony Maietta

October 9, 2008: Keeper of the Jewels

Balanchine Variations by Nancy Goldner

June 12, 2008: 'Artists in Exile' (letter)

May 15, 2008: Falling Stars

Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts by Joseph Horowitz.

April 17, 2008: The Rescue of John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947–1962: The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Discontent / Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

September 27, 2007: Lit-Flicks

Becoming Jane a film directed by Julian Jarrold

Molière a film directed by Laurent Tirard

Shakespeare in Love a film directed by John Madden

August 16, 2007: Wake Up and Dream

The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed

May 10, 2007: The Drama of Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt by Henry Gidel

Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama by Carol Ockman and Kenneth E. Silver

Sarah Bernhardt's First American Theatrical Tour, 1880–1881 by Patricia Marks

Being Divine: A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt by Ruth Brandon

Sarah Bernhardt by Philippe Jullian

Dear Sarah Bernhardt by Françoise Sagan, translated from the French by Sabine Destrée

The Divine Sarah: A Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale

My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt translated from the French by Victoria Tietze Larson

Sarah Bernhardt and Her World by Joanna Richardson

Les Mémoires de Sarah Barnum by Marie Colombier, with a preface by Paul Bonnetain

The Idol of Paris by Sarah Bernhardt

Madame Sarah by Cornelia Otis Skinner

Sarah Bernhardt: The Art Within the Legend by Gerda Taranow

April 6, 2006: Force of Nature

Elia Kazan: A Biography by Richard Schickel

January 13, 2005: Orientally Yours

Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughterto Hollywood Legend by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Perpetually Cool:The Many Lives of Anna May Wong (1905–1961) by Anthony B. Chan

December 16, 2004: Passage to India (letter)

December 2, 2004: The Art of Pleasing

Margot Fonteyn: A Life by Meredith Daneman

November 18, 2004: Becky in the Movies

Vanity Fair a film directed by Mira Nair

December 18, 2003: Duse Plays the Palace

Eleonora Duse by Helen Sheehy

November 20, 2003: Defending Bruno Bettelheim (letter)

February 27, 2003: The Strange Case of Dr. B.

Rising to the Light: A Portrait of Bruno Bettelheim by Theron Raines

Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School by Stephen Eliot

The Creation of Dr. B: A Biography of Bruno Bettelheim by Richard Pollak

The Pelican and After by Tom Wallace Lyons

Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy by Nina Sutton, translated from the French by David Sharp

November 1, 2001: Long-Distance Runner

Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life by Charles Affron

Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen by Stuart Oderman