罗伯特·希尔维尔斯(Robert Silvers,1929~2017),生于纽约长岛,早年就读于芝加哥大学、耶鲁法学院,后来在《巴黎评论》《哈珀杂志》担任编辑。1963年,他作为联合创始人之一,参与创办了《纽约书评》,此后50余年担任该刊编辑。其间,罗伯特·希尔维尔斯与同事一道,坚持“独立思想与现实关怀”的办刊理念,在《纽约书评》刊发过哈维尔的《知识分子与权力》、苏珊·桑塔格的《论摄影》等影响一时的作品及评论,将该刊打造成为美国思想文化界的名片。 Robert Silvers (1929 ~ 2017), born in Long Island, New York City, studied early at the University of Chicago and Yale Law School before making editorials in The Review of Paris and Harper Magazine. In 1963, he co-founded the Book Review in New York as one of the co-founders, and more than 50 years later became editor of the magazine. In the meantime, Robert Hillville together with his colleagues insisted on the concept of “independent thinking and realistic concern,” published in the New York Book Review Javier’s “intellectuals and power”, Susan Santana Georgia’s “On Photography” and other influential works and comments, the magazine into a business card for the American ideological and cultural circles.