Me and Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Herman Gollob
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1997-2001
- Setting: New Jersey, New York, and Oxford, England
- Principal Characters: Herman Gollob, Barbara Gollob, Bob, Lou, Emma Smith
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Acting or actors, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Education or educators, Poetry or poets, Books, England or English people, Seventeenth century, New Jersey, Reading, Sixteenth century, Drama or dramatists, Theater, Films, movies, or motion pictures, 1990’s, Entertaining or entertainers, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Great Britain, Plays or playwrights, 2000’s
- Locales: New York, New Jersey, Oxford, England
Herman Gollob spent some time as a theatrical agent for MCA and the William Morris Agency in California before moving to the East Coast to work as a book editor for Little, Brown; Atheneum; Doubleday; Simon & Schuster; and other publishing companies. He edited James Clavell’s first book, King Rat (1962), and set Clavell’s career in motion. He was the first to edit Dan Jenkins, author of Semi-Tough (1972) and Rude Behavior (1998), and Bill Moyers of Listening to America (1971) fame. He was a friend and early editor of the short-story writer David...
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