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Robert Silvers (Robert Benjamin Silvers) was born on 31 December, 1929 in Mineola, New York, US, is an American editor (1929–2017). Discover Robert Silvers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As Robert Benjamin Silvers
Occupation Editor
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 31 December, 1929
Birthday 31 December
Birthplace Mineola, New York, US
Date of death 2017
Died Place New York City, US
Nationality United States

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1892

His parents were James J. Silvers (1892–1986), a salesman, sometime farmer and small business owner, and Rose Roden Silvers (1895–1979), a music and arts columnist for The New York Globe, restaurateur, and one of the first female radio hosts for RCA.

1927

He had one brother, Edwin D. Silvers (1927–2000), a civil engineer.

His paternal grandparents were Romanian Jewish immigrants, and his maternal grandparents were Russian Jews.

1929

Robert Benjamin Silvers (December 31, 1929 – March 20, 2017) was an American editor who served as editor of The New York Review of Books from 1963 to 2017.

1947

Raised on Long Island, New York, Silvers graduated from the University of Chicago in 1947 and attended Yale Law School, but he left before graduating and worked as press secretary to Chester Bowles in 1950.

Silvers graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947 (at the age of 17) after completing an accelerated two-year program and attended Yale Law School for three semesters.

1950

Silvers worked as press secretary to Connecticut Governor Chester Bowles in 1950, who was campaigning for reelection.

1952

He was sent by the U.S. Army to Paris in 1952 as a speechwriter and press aide, while finishing his education at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po.

He soon joined The Paris Review as an editor under the guidance of George Plimpton.

During the Korean War he served in the U.S. Army, which sent him to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe Headquarters in Paris in 1952 as a speechwriter and press aide.

While in Paris, he attended the Sorbonne and Paris Institute of Political Studies (known as Sciences Po), eventually receiving its certificat de diplôme (diploma certificate).

His official duties left him time to work as an editor of a quarterly magazine published by the World Assembly of Youth and as a commissioning editor representing a small publishing company, Noonday Press.

1954

In 1954, while working for Noonday, he met and befriended George Plimpton, editor of the new magazine The Paris Review, and after Silvers' discharge from the Army a few months later, Plimpton invited him to become managing editor.

1955

Plimpton returned to the U.S. in 1955, leaving Silvers in charge; living on a barge on the Seine with a friend, Silvers served as managing editor until 1956.

Plimpton later said that Silvers "made The Paris Review what it was".

Silvers continued his studies at the same time.

1958

Silvers returned to New York in 1958, becoming associate editor of Harper's Magazine, where he remained until 1963.

1959

From 1959 to 1963, he was an associate editor of Harper's Magazine in New York.

For an issue of the magazine in 1959 focusing on the state of writing in America, he engaged Elizabeth Hardwick to contribute her essay "The Decline of Book Reviewing", which fifty years later he described as "one of the most thrilling pieces I've ever published".

It became an inspiration for the founding of The New York Review of Books (NYRB).

1960

In 1960, he edited the book Writing in America and translated La Gangrene, which describes the brutal torture of seven Algerian men by the Paris Security Police in 1958, shortly after Charles de Gaulle came to power.

Silvers also edited or co-edited several essay anthologies, including Writing in America (1960); A Middle East Reader: Selected Essays on the Middle East (1991); The First Anthology: Thirty Years of the New York Review (1993); Hidden Histories of Science (1995); India: A Mosaic (2000); Doing It: Five Performing Arts (2001), a collection of essays on the performing arts; The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001); Striking Terror (2002); The Company They Kept (vol. 1, 2006; vol. 2, 2011); The Consequences to Come: American Power After Bush (2008); and The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage (2013).

1962

During the 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike, when The New York Times and six other newspapers suspended publication, Hardwick, her husband Robert Lowell, and Jason and Barbara Epstein, saw an opportunity to introduce the sort of vigorous book review that Hardwick had imagined.

Jason Epstein knew that book publishers would advertise their books in the new publication, since they had no other outlet for promoting new books.

The group asked Silvers, who was still at Harper's, to edit the issue, and Silvers asked Barbara Epstein to co-edit it with him.

2006

Silvers was co-editor of The New York Review of Books with Barbara Epstein for 43 years, until she died in 2006, and was the sole editor of the paper after that until his own death in 2017.

Philip Marino of Liveright Publishing wrote of him: "Like a chemist pairing ingredients to induce a specific reaction, Silvers has built his career matching the right author and subject, in hopes of generating an exciting and illuminating result."

Silvers edited or co-edited several essay anthologies.

Silvers and Epstein "became an inseparable double act", editing The New York Review of Books together for the next 43 years, until her death in 2006.

2007

Asked in 2007 about who might succeed him as editor, Silvers replied: "It's not a question that's posing itself."

2009

In 2009, he wrote the essay "Dilemmas eines Herausgebers" ("Dilemmas of an editor") appearing in the Austrian journal Transit – Europäische Revue.

2010

He also served on the editorial committee of La Rivista dei Libri, the Italian-language edition of the Review, until it closed in 2010.

2012

In 2012, he added, "I can think of several people who would be marvelous editors."

2014

He appeared prominently in the 2014 documentary film about the Review, The 50 Year Argument.

Silvers' awards and honorary degrees include the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award for "Distinguished Service to the Arts", the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing and a National Humanities Medal.

Among other honors, he was a Chevalier of the French Légion d’honneur and a member of the French Ordre National du Mérite.

Silvers was born in Mineola, New York, and grew up in Farmingdale and then Rockville Centre, New York.

2017

Silvers continued as sole editor until his death in March 2017.

In later years, he described his motivation for continuing to edit the Review: "I feel it's a fantastic opportunity – because of the freedom of it, because of the sense that there are marvelous, intensely interesting, important questions that you have a chance to try to deal with in an interesting way. That's an extraordinary opportunity in life. And you'd be crazy not to try and make the most of it."

He said on another occasion: "We do what we want and don't try to figure out what the public wants."