Barbara Epstein

Barbara Epstein ( Zimmerman; August 30, 1928 – June 16, 2006) was an American literary editor and founding co-editor of The New York Review of Books.

Life and work Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949. In 1953, she and editor Jason Epstein began a marriage that lasted 37 years.

Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, among other books. She next worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill, and the Partisan Review. She and Robert B. Silvers became the editors. Barbara Epstein remained at the New York Review of Books as an editor for 43 years.