Researching Robert Loomis
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 8 people with the Loomis surname? In that year Loomis was ranked number 3571 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Robert means "bright fame" and is of English origin.
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Robert Loomis and the Loomis Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 6 people with the Loomis surname in the UK? Loomis is now ranked number 4035 for popularity in the UK. |
Loomis Family Tree Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 18229 people with the Loomis surname in the USA? Loomis is ranked number 151 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Robert Loomis
Robert Loomis
Robert Duane Loomis (August 24, 1926 – April 19, 2020) was an American book editor who worked at Random House from 1957 until his retirement in 2011. He has been called "one of publishing's hall of fame editors."
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 (1969). His authors' loyalty to him, and his to them, was almost legendary. Loomis represented "the classic mold of the editor" and according to Random House, he "embodied the ideal of an old-fashioned editor: understated, but uncanny; polite, but persistent". 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." He was well known as a mentor to editors and writers in all areas of the publishing industry.
Other notable authors who have been edited by Loomis include Calvin Trillin, Edmund Morris (who wrote Dutch, the "controversial" biography of US President Ronald Reagan), Shelby Foote, Jonathan Harr, and anchorman Jim Lehrer. He edited the Vietnam war epic, A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and in 1998, the novel he edited for Pete Dexter, Paris Trout, earned the National Book Award, "an unprecedented feat in editing."
Loomis and author William Styron had known each other since they were both students at Duke University, where Loomis was Styron's editor at Duke's student magazine. Loomis went on to edit all of Styron's books except Lie Down in Darkness, his first novel.
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