Robert Gottlieb died on June 14, 2023, in Manhattan, at the age of 92 as a result of natural cause according to a close source. He has since been up in the news, on blog sites among other media platforms for discussion.
Mr. Gottlieb was the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker. He worked with authors including Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, Robert Caro, John le Carré, Philip Roth, William Styron, E.L. Doctorow, Michael Crichton, James Baldwin, and Susan Sontag.
Robert Gottlieb wife and children
Gottlieb married Muriel Higgins in 1952. They had one child, Roger. In 1969, Gottlieb married Maria Tucci, an actress whose father, the novelist Niccolò Tucci, was one of Gottlieb’s writers. They have two children and they are; Lizzie Gottlieb, a film director, and Nicholas, who is the subject of one of his sister’s documentary films, Today’s Man.
Robert Gottlieb parents and siblings
Robert Gottlieb was born on April 29, 1931, in Manhattan, New York City, to Charles and Martha Gottlieb. His father was a lawyer, and his mother was a teacher. Robwrt had one sibling, a sister named Elizabeth.
