Bernard W. Shir-Cliff (November 7, 1924 – February 28, 2017) was an editor for Ballantine Books , Contemporary Books, Warner Books and other publishers, who also translated books and later became a well-known literary agent. As a senior editor at Warner Books, he was responsible for the huge publishing success of sex therapist and author Dr. Ruth Westheimer , which she writes about in her autobiography, All in a Lifetime (2001).
10-602: [REDACTED] Look up shir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shir (Persian: شير , " Lion ") may refer to: Shir, Mazandaran , a village in Fereydunkenar County, Iran Shir, South Khorasan , a village in Sarbisheh County, Iran Shir, Syria , a village Shir (Neolithic site) , a site in western Syria, near Hama See also [ edit ] Arslan ,
20-483: A Persian or Turkic word for 'lion' Asad , an Arabic term for 'lion' Aryeh , a Hebrew term for 'lion' Bernard Shir-Cliff (1924-2017), American editor Sher (disambiguation) Shir ha-shirim , also known as The Song of Songs, a biblical scroll Shira (disambiguation) Shira Haas , Israeli actress Shirabad (disambiguation) Shiri (disambiguation) Shiri Appleby , American actress of Israeli descend Shiri Maimon , Israeli singer Singh ,
30-537: A Sanskrit term for 'lion' [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shir&oldid=1256748947 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Persian-language text Short description
40-537: A Sanskrit term for 'lion' [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shir&oldid=1256748947 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Persian-language text Short description
50-602: A village Shir (Neolithic site) , a site in western Syria, near Hama See also [ edit ] Arslan , a Persian or Turkic word for 'lion' Asad , an Arabic term for 'lion' Aryeh , a Hebrew term for 'lion' Bernard Shir-Cliff (1924-2017), American editor Sher (disambiguation) Shir ha-shirim , also known as The Song of Songs, a biblical scroll Shira (disambiguation) Shira Haas , Israeli actress Shirabad (disambiguation) Shiri (disambiguation) Shiri Appleby , American actress of Israeli descend Shiri Maimon , Israeli singer Singh ,
60-423: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages shir [REDACTED] Look up shir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shir (Persian: شير , " Lion ") may refer to: Shir, Mazandaran , a village in Fereydunkenar County, Iran Shir, South Khorasan , a village in Sarbisheh County, Iran Shir, Syria ,
70-580: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bernard Shir-Cliff Born in Troy, New York , Shir-Cliff attended Mountain Lakes High School and graduated from Columbia University , where he was the editor-in-chief of the humorist magazine, Jester of Columbia . As the editor at Ballantine in the 1950s and 1960s, he handled the Zacherley anthologies,
80-423: The humor anthology, The Wild Reader (Ballantine), featuring essays, poems and satirical pieces by Robert Benchley , Art Buchwald , Tom Lehrer , John Lardner, Shepherd Mead, Ogden Nash , S.J. Perelman , Frank Sullivan, James Thurber and others. The 154-page paperback was illustrated with cartoons by Kelly Freas who also did the front cover. The screenplay of Roger Vadim 's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1959)
90-457: The paperback of Hunter S. Thompson 's Hell's Angels , Harvey Kurtzman 's The Mad Reader and other early Mad paperbacks. He made four contributions to Mad and also contributed to other magazines edited by Kurtzman, such as "The Karate Lesson" in Kurtzman's Help! (October 1964). He satirized Sports Illustrated in the second issue of Kurtzman's Trump magazine. In 1956 he edited
100-441: Was translated by Shir-Cliff for publication by Ballantine in 1962. He also was the co-translator with Oscar De Liso of the screenplay for Federico Fellini 's La Dolce Vita (Ballantine, 1961). In the early 1980s, when he was editor-in-chief of Warner Books, Shir-Cliff commented on the publishing recession and lower reprint prices: Until his recent retirement, Shir-Cliff was an agent handling such books as John R. Dann's Song of
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