Gordon Lish was born in 1934 in Hewlett and currently lives in New York. Known in Europe especially for being the publisher of authors such as Raymond Carver or Don DeLillo, he is one of the most unique and rigorous storytellers of the last decades.
Founder of magazines such as The Chrysalis Review or Genesis West, who made authors such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg or Neal Cassady known in the 1960s, between 1969 and 1976 he would work as editor of Esquire and from that date as literary director of the prestigious publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
Known as Captain Fiction for his talent for discovering new writers, Lish would be the promoter of some of the most relevant authors of the moment, from the aforementioned Carver and DeLillo to names such as Cynthia Ozick, David Leavitt, Harold Brokey or Amy Hempel . With more than fifty years he would publish his first novel, Dear Mr. Capote.