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Publishing Giant Giroux Dies At 94 In New Jersey

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Published: September 6, 2008

NEW YORK - Robert Giroux, 94, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died Friday in Tinton Falls, N.J.

Giroux helped create one of the most notable publishing houses, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Known for his taste and discretion, he began in 1940 as an editor at Harcourt, Brace & Co. and had so great a reputation that when he left in 1955 to join what was then Farrar Straus, more than a dozen writers joined him, including Flannery O'Connor, Malamud and Eliot, a close friend.

Giroux joined Farrar as editor in chief and was made a full partner in 1964, his reserved demeanor in contrast to the company's boisterous founder and president, Roger Straus. The Associated Press

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