Robert Giroux

Robert Giroux (1914–2008) was an editor and publisher, and editor in chief of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He was the editor of T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Virginia Woolf, as well as the publisher of the first books by Flannery O’Connor, Robert Lowell, Jack Kerouac, and Susan Sontag.

E. M. Forster

The novelist valued friendship above all else
Robert Giroux
April 1, 1987