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This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's<em> Catch-22</em> and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's <em>Beloved</em> and Robert Caro's <em>The Power Broker</em>, has died at age 92.

Robert Gottlieb, celebrated editor of Toni Morrison and Robert Caro, has died at 92

Gottlieb, whose work helped shape the modern publishing canon, edited fiction by future Nobel laureates, spy novels by John le Carré, essays by Nora Ephron and Caro's nonfiction epics.

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  • The Associated Press