From his earliest journalistic experiences as an editor of his high school and college newspapers, the author Larry Kirshbaum has always been fascinated with the written word in print or digital formats. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1966 he worked as a journalist for Newsweek Magazine and co-authored a non-fiction study of student protest with a Michigan Daily classmate Roger Rapoport entitled "Is the Library Burning?" It was published by Random House in 1970. Most of Kirshbaum's publishing career was spent at the Warner Book Group where he became publisher in 1985 and CEO for ten years starting in 1997. He also worked as a literary agent with the Scott Waxman Agency and spent three years from 2011-14 managing the New York City office of Amazon Book Publishing. He now lives in Manhattan with his wife of 57 years, Barbara, whom he met in his freshman year at Michigan. Their children and grandchildren live close by with a dog and a cat in their respective families.
