Robert Gottlieb, an illustrious editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, who shaped a library of novels, nonfiction books and magazine articles by acclaimed writers from the middle to the late 20th century, died on June 14 in Manhattan. He was 92.

Mr. Gottlieb edited novels by, among many others, John le Carré, Toni Morrison, John Cheever, Joseph Heller, Doris Lessing and Chaim Potok; science fiction by Michael Crichton and Ray Bradbury; histories by Antonia Fraser and Barbara Tuchman; memoirs by former President Bill Clinton and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham; and works by Jessica Mitford and Anthony Burgess.

In addition to a memoir, Mr. Gottlieb wrote biographies of the actress Sarah Bernhardt and the choreographer George Balanchine, a book on the children of Charles Dickens, and articles for The New York Review of Books and many other publications.