Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb has been Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, and The New Yorker. He is the author of George Balanchine: The Ballet Maker and the dance critic of The New York Observer. (October 2008)
From the Review
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