High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Giroux (April 8, 1914 – September 5, 2008) was an influential American book editor and publisher. Starting his editing career with Harcourt, Brace Co., he was hired away to work for Roger W. Straus, Jr. at Farrar Straus in 1955, where he became a partner and, eventually, its chairman. The firm was henceforth known as Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where was known by his nickname, "Bob" .