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Robert Loomis, editor of Angelou, Styron, dies at 93

by AP National Writer
| April 22, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Loomis, a blue-chip editor of old-fashioned sense and persistence who in more than 50 years at Random House encouraged, prodded and befriended William Styron, Maya Angelou, Calvin Trillin and many others, has died.

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