View Gordon Lish Pics. Widely acknowledged as perhaps the most influential editor since maxwell perkins, gordon lish has worked closely with. He is the father of the novelist atticus lish.

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Gordon lish (born february 11, 19341 in hewlett, new york) is an american writer.2 as a literary editor, he championed many american authors, particularly raymond carver, barry hannah. Not since maxwell perkins has an editor been so famous—or notorious—as a sculptor of other people's prose. Gordon lish is a different animal.

This great man of american letters should be judged by his body of work and the success of his students, not by his editing of raymond carver.

Not since maxwell perkins has an editor been so famous—or notorious—as a sculptor of other people's prose. Ten stories had new titles and the endings of fourteen had been rewritten. Preparation for the next life is atticus lish's first novel. A country where the publishing fiefdoms of manhattan were proud castles in the sky.