“Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.”

American writer and editor

Robert Adams Gottlieb was an American writer and editor. He served as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker. Gottlieb shaped some of the most influential publishing and magazine institutions in the United States. His career was centered on editing, and his name is associated with work in book publishing and magazine journalism.