![]() “ An Editor and a Gentleman” ( Vanity Fair).“ Nurturer of Authors Is Closing the Book” ( New York Times).Please register to help us estimate attendance.Ĭo-sponsored by the Department of English. He was also a student of celebrated Duke English Professor William Blackburn. Loomis’s fellow students at Duke included Styron, Guy Davenport, and New York Magazine founder Clay Felker. ![]() Loomis worked for Random House from 1957 to 2011, eventually rising to Vice President and Executive Editor. He holds a revered place in the publishing industry as an editor known for nurturing writers whose books went on to great success, including Maya Angelou, William Styron, Shelby Foote, Calvin Trillin, Edmund Morris, Daniel J. Join the Duke University Libraries and Department of English for an informal conversation with Bob Loomis, the legendary Random House editor and Duke alumnus (T ’49), as he discusses the lively literary culture on campus during his post-war undergraduate years. WHERE: Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Rubenstein Library 153) Many of the books Bob Loomis edited during his career at Random House continue to be read and discussed decades after their publication.
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