Barbara Epstein ( Zimmerman; August 30, 1928 – June 16, 2006) was a literary editor and founding co-editor of '' The New York Review of Books''.

Life and work

Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family, and graduated from

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in 1949. In 1953, she and editor Jason Epstein began a marriage that lasted 37 years. Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's '' The Diary of a Young Girl'', among other books. She next worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill, and the '' Partisan Review''. During the New York newspaper strike of 1963, Barbara and Jason Epstein, together with friends

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and Elizabeth Hardwick, founded the biweekly magazine '' The New York Review of Books'', which Barbara called "the paper".Atlas, James
"The Ma and Pa of the Intelligentsia"
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became the editors. Barbara Epstein remained at the New York Review of Books as an editor for 43 years.''The Economist'' obituary
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until his death in 1997. She continued in her editing until shortly before her death. Epstein died on June 16, 2006, of lung cancer in New York City at age 77.Epstein, 1928–2006' ''The New York Review of Books'' 16 June 2006
Retrieved 30 August 2006.

References

External links

* David Remnick
Postscript: Barbara Epstein
The New Yorker, July 3, 2006 - Obituary.
Obituary

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