Publisher Giroux dies
Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from TS Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning, reports the Huffington Post.
Thomas Guinzburg, who helped found the Paris Review, the celebrated literary journal, and later ran the publisher Viking Press, died Wednesday in New York at the age of 84.