Giroux, Robert

Writer, editor, publisher, most notably for 40 years as a partner in the the firm of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Native of New Jersey, graduated with honors from Columbia University in 1936. Author of three books: The Education of an editor : the Bowker lectures for 1981; The Book known as Q : a study of Shakespeare's sonnets (1982); and A Deed of death : the story of an unsolved Hollywood murder (1990). Edited or wrote introductions for The Collected prose of Elizabeth Bishop; One art : a collection of Elizabeth Bishop's letters; The Complete stories of Bernard Malamud; The Freedom of the poet : the collected essays of John Berryman; The Collected stories of Flannery O'Connor; and The Collected stories of Peter Taylor. Among other authors edited by Giroux are Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jack Kerouac, Robert Lowell, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, Randall Jarrell, George Orwell, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jean Stafford and Derek Walcott. Honors and awards have included the National Book Critics Circle Award for distinguished contributions to American literature as editor and publisher; the Alexander Hamilton Award from Columbia University; New York University's Elmer Bobst Award; and the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Seton Hall University.