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Robert Silvers
Robert Silvers Robert Silvers was born in Mineola, New York on December 31, 1929.

Silvers is co-editor of The New York Review of Books. Before joining the Review, he was the associate editor of Harper's from 1959 to 1963, the editor of the book Writing in America, and translator of La Gangrene. Before that, Silvers lived in Paris for six years, where he served with the U.S. Army at SHAPE Headquarters and attended the Sorbonne and Ecole des Sciences Politiques. He joined the editorial board of The Paris Review in 1954 and became Paris editor in 1956. He also worked as press secretary to Governor Chester Bowles in 1950.
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