By Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Legendary book editor Robert Loomis died on Sunday in Stony Brook, N.Y.
He was 93. He died at Stony Brook University Hospital after he had fallen at home. Loomis spent his more than 50 years in book publishing at Random House.
His roster of authors included Maya Angelou, Daniel J. Boorstin, Wlliam Styron, Calvin Trillin, Edmund Morris, Shelby Foote, Jim Lehrer and David Rockefeller.
He edited 31 books by Angelou, including her first, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” in 1969. ”We are an item,” Angelou once told the New York Times. ”I would go with Bob if he left and went to a university press.
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