Robert Giroux died in his on 5th September. He was 94.

Giroux was the American collector of T. S. Eliot and Flannery O'Connor, whom he brought with him when he joined publishing lodgings Farrar & Straus in 1964. The players then changed its appellation to Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Giroux worked with and developed myriad foremost authors including Jack Kerouac,George Orwell, Derek Walcott, Jean Stafford, Robert Lowell, and Bernard Malamud.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux publishes Country-wide Work Awarding winners Madeleine L'Engle, William Steig, Louis Sachar and Polly Harvath. Other children's and YA authors published nearby FSG are Natalie babbitt, Roald Dahl, Jack Gantos, George Selden and Peter Sis.

Look over The Imaginative York Times' necrologue here.