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  1. University of Chicago. Yale University. Occupation. Editor. Notable work. The New York Review of Books. 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. Raised on Long Island, New York, Silvers graduated from the University of Chicago in ...

  2. Mar 24, 2017 · Robert B. Silvers, the founder and long-serving editor of The New York Review of Books, died on Monday, at the age of eighty-seven. We asked our contributors for remembrances.

  3. Mar 20, 2017 · Robert B. Silvers, a founder of The New York Review of Books, which under his editorship became one of the premier intellectual journals in the United States, a showcase for extended,...

  4. May 11, 2017 · Email us letters@nybooks.com. Bob Silvers, my friend and the editor of The New York Review, died on March 20, shortly after completing the April 6 issue. Together with Barbara Epstein, Jason Epstein, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Robert Lowell, he founded the Review in 1963; for fifty-four years he was either co-editor with Barbara or, after her ...

  5. In 2013 he received the Vergennes Award from the French-American Foundation. Robert B. Silvers died after a brief illness on March 20, 2017, at the age of eighty-seven, shortly after the death of his companion, Lady Grace Dudley. They are buried together in Switzerland.

  6. Mar 20, 2017 · Mon 20 Mar 2017 15.39 EDT. Revered New York Review of Books editor Robert B Silvers, who served as founding editor of the magazine for more than 53 years, died on Monday morning. Silvers,...

  7. Mar 20, 2017 · By HILLEL ITALIE. Updated 12:31 PM PDT, March 20, 2017. NEW YORK (AP) — Robert B. Silvers, the exacting and perpetual editor of The New York Review of Books who responded to private groaning over the state of criticism and helped create a literary magazine of lasting influence, died Monday at age 87.

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