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Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb

 Avid reader he is.  All seven books of Remembrance of Things Past in seven days.  Told to go out and play by parents, he stands outside his apt. building for an hour with a yo-yo and then goes back in.  Columbia, then time at Cambridge. Directs some college plays successfully.  Marries, child, returns to NY.  Floundering.  Catches on with Simon & Schuster, which is a slightly sketchy publishers at the time.

Dismisses first wife with "we were never really married" though five years and a child seem like a marriage to me.  Describes early days of promoting books . . . dust jackets, contacts with reviewers, etc.  Years of Freudian analysis (4x per week) even though he's struggling financially.  Doesn't put himself last, that's for sure.

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