Thomas Guinzburg

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Thomas Henry Guinzburg was an American editor and publisher who served as the first managing editor of The Paris Review following its inception in 1953 and later succeeded his father as president of the Viking Press. Guinzburg was born on March 30, 1926… Read More

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Rita Gam
Married 1955 - 1963

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Bookwoman
NYTimes - Jan 02, 2011

READING JACKIE Her Autobiography in Books By William Kuhn Illustrated. 350 pp. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. $27.95. JACKIE AS EDITOR The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis By Greg Lawrence Illlustrated. 322 pp. Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press. $25.99. Sixteen years after the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis from non-Hodgkins
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Once An Editor, Now The Subject
NYTimes - Dec 02, 2010

IT doesn't really matter whether Serendipity, the restaurant on East 60th Street in Manhattan, was already serving footlong hot dogs in 1975, or its frozen hot chocolate. Neither Nan Talese nor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis would have ordered them anyway. ''I don't think I noticed what either of us had,'' Ms. Talese, the longtime editor, said there
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Corrections
NYTimes - Sep 23, 2010

An obituary on Sept. 10 about Thomas Guinzburg, a former president of Viking Press, using information from the company, misstated the name of the man with whom his father, Harold K. Guinzburg, founded Viking in 1925. He was George S. Oppenheimer, not George S. Oppenheim.
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Corrections
NYTimes - Sep 14, 2010

An obituary on Friday about Thomas Guinzburg, an editor and publisher who helped create The Paris Review, misstated the position held by William F. Buckley Jr. at The Yale Daily News when Mr. Guinzburg was managing editor. Mr. Buckley was chairman, not editor.
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1926 Birth Born in 1926.

TWENTIES

1953 27 Years Old He joined with Matthiessen and Plimpton in 1953 to establish The Paris Review, an English-language literary magazine for "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe grinders. … Read More

1954 28 Years Old He joined the publicity department at Viking Press in 1954 and assumed the position of president after his father's death in 1961.

THIRTIES

1956 30 Years Old He was survived by a daughter Kate and a son Michael from his first wife, actress Rita Gam, whom he married in 1956. … Read More

FORTIES

1975 49 Years Old 1 More Event

Viking was purchased by Penguin Books in 1975 for a price estimated at $12 million. … Read More

FIFTIES

1977 51 Years Old Onassis left the firm in 1977 after Viking published the Jeffrey Archer book Shall We Tell the President?, a fictional political thriller that depicted an assassination plot against U.S. President Ted Kennedy.Among the many literary prizes awarded to Viking authors during his tenure as President were eight National Book Awards, three Pulitzer Prizes, and two Nobel Prizes in literature. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

2010 84 Years Old Guinzburg died in Manhattan at age 84 on September 8, 2010, due to complications of Heart bypass surgery.

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