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Robert Loomis
American book editor (–)
Robert Duane Loomis (August 24, – April 19, ) was an American book editor who worked at Random House from until his retirement in [2][3] He has been called "one of publishing's hall of fame editors."[4]
Many of Loomis's authors had worked with him for decades, including Maya Angelou, who wrote 31 books under his editorship, beginning with her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ().[2] His authors' loyalty to him, and his to them, was almost legendary.
Loomis represented "the classic mold of the editor"[5] and according to Random House, he "embodied the ideal of an old-fashioned editor: understated, but uncanny; polite, but persistent".[2] As Angelou said, Loomis "knows what I hope to achieve in all my work.
I don't know anybody as fierce, simply fierce, but he's as tender as he's tough."[4] He was well known as a mentor to editors and writers in all