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Robert Loomis is a renowned American editor who has worked with some of the most influential authors of the 20th century, including Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and William Styron. He was born on August 24, 1926 in Conneaut, Ohio, and attended Oberlin College, where he earned a degree in English. Loomis began his career as an editor at Random House in 1952, where he worked with authors such as William Styron, John Updike, and Ernest Hemingway. He was the editor of Hemingway's posthumous novel, Islands in the Stream, and Updike's Rabbit series. He also edited Styron's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner. In addition to his editorial work, Loomis has written several books, including The Art of Editing (1985) and The Making of a Bestseller (1995). He has also served as a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University. As of 2021, Robert Loomis's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Occupation Book editor
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 24 August 1926
Birthday 24 August
Birthplace Conneaut, Ohio, US
Date of death April 19, 2020
Died Place Stony Brook, New York, US
Nationality United States

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Robert Loomis Net Worth

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2020

Loomis was married to Hilary Mills, who wrote a biography about Norman Mailer. He was a certified pilot. Loomis died on April 19, 2020, in Stony Brook, New York, after a fall.

1998

Other notable authors who have been edited by Loomis include Calvin Trillin, Edmund Morris (who wrote Dutch, the "controversial" biography of US President Ronald Reagan), Shelby Foote, Jonathan Harr, and anchorman Jim Lehrer. He edited the Vietnam war epic, A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and in 1998, the novel he edited for Pete Dexter, Paris Trout, earned the National Book Award, "an unprecedented feat in editing."

1969

Many of Loomis's authors had worked with him for decades, including Maya Angelou, who wrote 31 books under his editorship, beginning with her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). His authors' loyalty to him, and his to them, was almost legendary. Loomis represented "the classic mold of the editor" and according to Random House, he "embodied the ideal of an old-fashioned editor: understated, but uncanny; polite, but persistent". As Angelou said, Loomis "knows what I hope to achieve in all my work. I don't know anybody as fierce, simply fierce, but he's as tender as he's tough." He was well known as a mentor to editors and writers in all areas of the publishing industry.

1926

Robert Duane Loomis (August 24, 1926 – April 19, 2020) was an American book editor who worked at Random House from 1957 until his retirement in 2011. He has been called "one of publishing's hall of fame editors."

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