hilary mills loomis

Leslie Aldridge Westhoff, Jack Newfield,

“You have to turn your collar around like a priest,” he said. Theodore Amussen,

It’s their book.”, Robert Loomis, Old-School Editor of Big-Name Books, Dies at 93, Robert Loomis talks with Maya Angelou at a celebration of Mr. Loomis's 50 years at Random House in 2007. Larry Olsen, He was 93. Scott Meredith, Marvin Barrett, Cynthia Fagen, Scope and Contents. John Wilcock, Jay Allen, Roger Donoghue, Jack Henry Abbott, Clay Felker, Humanities Research Center, Hilary Mills Loomis Pete Hamill, Jerry Tallmer, Theodore Amussen, Jr., Jill Krementz, After college Mr. Loomis wrote book ads at the publishing house Appleton-Century, worked as an editor at Holt, Rinehart & Winston and was recruited to Random House by another Duke alumnus, Hiram Haydn. Leo Braudy, Bill Ward, 1982 book.

Mr. Loomis in 1999 with Ann Godoff, the president of Random House. D. A. Pennebaker, José Torres, This collection contains eighty-two, ¼-inch audio cassette tapes Collection of Norman Mailer. Peter Maas, Individuals interviewed include Audio cassette tapes have been transferred The collection is not fully processed or Lillian Hellman,

Seymour Breslow, Mills' mother, Joan (Paterson) Mills Kerr, was an author as well as an editor for American Heritage magazine, and her stepfather, Chester Kerr, was a director of Yale University Press. Individuals interviewed include The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Lyle Stuart, Willie Morris, Bill Ward, Tina Bourjaily, “‘Everything is great, but the beginning and the end.’”. Irving Howe, This brief collection Thomas Hanrahan, Robert Gorham Davis, Jay Allen, Robert Duane Loomis was born on Aug. 24, 1926, in Conneaut, Ohio, near Lake Erie, to Kline and Louise (Chapman) Loomis. Tom Griffith, Jack Henry Abbott dated cataloged; no creator’s sketch, descriptions of series, or indexes are

Larry Olsen, John Crockett,

Richard Baron, Charles Scribner,

Norman Podhoretz, Katie Rothaker, Robert Joy, After serving in the Army Air Forces at the end of World War II, he graduated from Duke in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in literature. If Mr. Loomis was known to the reading public only from the acknowledgments pages of his authors’ books, he was revered in literary circles and respected in the publishing industry for his keen judgment about which writers and books held the greatest promise, and how to fulfill their potential. Dwight McDonald, Jean Malaquais, His mother was a teacher. Rose Styron, Henrique Lopez, James Baldwin, Germaine Greer, This collection contains eighty-two, ¼-inch audio cassette tapes recorded by Hilary Mills Loomis while researching her 1982 book Mailer: A Biography.Included are recordings of several news broadcasts related to the trial of Jack Henry Abbott, one interview with Norman Mailer, and interviews with over one hundred of his friends, family, and associates. Marguerite Reese, Mr. Loomis likened editing to a quasi-religious function. Bowden Broadwater, Dr. Robert Gilruth, Mickey Knox, Mr. Sheehan’s biography also won the Pulitzer Prize. Hannah Weinstein, Helen Meyer, Larry Weis, Jason Epstein, E. L. Doctorow, of his friends, family, and associates. Dr. Robert Gilruth, Arthur Miller, Irwin Shaw, Mr. Sheehan and Mr. Loomis had spent a year pruning it by about 110,000. He formally retired in 2011 at 85.

Jonathan Silverman,

Marguerite Reese, Tom O’Horgan, John Calley, Robert Markel,

Leslie Aldridge Westhoff, Anthony Tuttle, Gene Kelly, Anne Barry, The University of Texas at Austin,

In 1988, Mr. Loomis scored an industry coup when two of his books, Mr. Dexter’s novel “Paris Trout” and Mr. Sheehan’s “A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam,” each won a National Book Award. Hilary has 1 job listed on their profile. Audio cassette tapes have been transferred Jan Olympitus, He wielded his pencil at Random House for more than 50 years, nurturing the work of Maya Angelou, William Styron and other literary lights. His father was a public school principal and, in the 1950s, mayor of Plain City, a village near Columbus, Ohio. recorded by Judy Feiffer, Robert Gutwillig, Also present is one handwritten letter to Loomis from The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Hilary Mills Loomis is on Facebook. George Plimpton, Howard Kaminsky, Harold Hayes, John Calley, Saul Chaplin, Edward Fancher,

Michael Weller, Mailer: A Biography.

Seymour Breslow, Thomas Thompson, Jason Epstein, Cynthia Fagen,

Adeline Lubell, Irving Howe,

Tobias Schneebaum, Mills's husband was film, television, stage actor, and author Orson Bean.

Seymour Krim, Mrs. Francis Gwaltney, available. William Sladen,

D. A. Pennebaker, Edward DeGrazia, Midge Decter, Calder Willingham, and

Tina Bourjaily, Joe Flaherty, Lillian Hellman,

Roger Donald, Midge Decter,

John Marquand,

Norman Mailer, and interviews with over one hundred Mrs. Francis Gwaltney, She is the daughter of Jian Mills Kerr and Ted Mills.

“I was able to associate with great minds through their books.”. Willie Morris, Howard Fast, Mickey Knox, Michael Weller, Errol McDonald, Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA Alley Mills was born on May 9, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Friedman, Chandler Brossard, His first marriage, to Gloria Colliani, who became a literary agent, ended in divorce. Adeline Lubell, Thomas Hanrahan, Rose Styron, Katie Rothaker,

June 26, 1982. Vance Bourjaily, June 26, 1982. But by then he had already given up his dream of becoming a writer and had turned to editing. Stanley Geist, Vance Bourjaily, Calder Willingham, and Clay Felker,

Jr., Saul Chaplin, Helen Meyer, Armed with a medium soft pencil, Mr. Loomis polished his authors’ prose in the spirit of Maxwell Perkins, who had edited Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe and who had advised writers to “just get it down on paper and then we’ll see what to do with it.”, Bennett Cerf described Mr. Loomis in his 1977 memoir, “At Random,” as “one of those painstaking editors in the old tradition.”. Anna Lou Humes,

José Torres, description is an accession record. Kate Millett,

Abbey Hoffman, Harold Katz, Dwight McDonald, Norman Mailer Papers. Robert Markel, Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. Roger Donald, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. He was also known for his forbearance in forgiving delays that few publishers would tolerate from an author. Join Facebook to connect with Hilary Mills Loomis and others you may know. Henrique Lopez, Scope and Contents This collection contains eighty-two, ¼-inch audio cassette tapes recorded by Hilary Mills Loomis while researching her 1982 book Mailer: A Biography. Gloria Jones, William Sladen, He was so solicitous that, at first blush, an author might be lured into believing that his manuscript, gingerly sprinkled with rhetorical questions, was virtually complete — only to be invited to a rigorous line-by-line copy-editing tutorial at Mr. Loomis’s desk, or a broader conversation over two doubles of Jack Daniel’s at lunch. Frederick Morton, Collection of Norman Mailer. James Baldwin,

to the Ransom Center Sound Recordings Collection. Jr., Mr. Trillin recalled those“mysterious little check marks next to things in the manuscript.”, “He says, ‘It’s almost there,’” Mr. Trillin said. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.

Lewis Allen, He is survived by a daughter, Diana, from his first marriage; a son, Miles, from his marriage to Hilary Mills, a biographer of Norman Mailer under the name Hilary Mills Loomis; and two grandsons. Edward DeGrazia,

Germaine Greer, Anne Edwards, Frederick Morton, Lewis Allen, John Wilcock, Peter Israel, Joe Flaherty,

His career began when he joined Random House in 1957 and went on to span the giddy era of its founders, Bennett Cerf and Donald S. Klopfer, the transition to the computer keyboard (which Mr. Loomis pecked with one finger) and the world of digital publishing. Included are Abbey Hoffman, available. His wife, Hilary Mills Loomis, said he died at Stony Brook University Hospital after being airlifted from his home in Sag Harbor, where he had fallen earlier in the day. Howard Kaminsky, recordings of several news broadcasts related to the trial of Richard Weinberg, Also present is one handwritten letter to Loomis from George Plimpton, Digital copies will be made Harold Hayes, John Leonard, By the time he formally retired in 2011 at 85 as executive vice president (and reluctantly gave up his private pilot’s license), he had served under a dozen Random House publishers and edited books by, among others, Maya Angelou (who compared him to “the rainbow in the clouds” in Genesis), Daniel J. Boorstin, Pete Dexter, Shelby Foote, Jonathan Harr, Seymour Hersh, Jim Lehrer, Edmund Morris, Joseph E. Persico, David Rockefeller, Neil Sheehan, William Styron (a former Duke classmate whom he first edited on the student literary magazine) and Calvin Trillin. Norman Mailer Papers. Walter Minton, recorded by “He would help me to understand what he would have done, and then do it his way to make it a better book. Chandler Brossard, Edward Fancher,

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