Person

Kimball, Robert

1939

was educated at Yale College and Yale Law School. He has been the music critic of the New York Post and is the co-author or editor of several books on musical theater, including Cole, the celebrated book about Cole Porter that he edited with Brendan Gill. He also edited Knopf's four previous books in the Complete Lyrics series. He is co-editor, with Robert Gottlieb, of Reading Lyrics. Mr. Kimball lives in New York.

historian of the American musical theatre; artistic adviser to the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Trusts and to the Cole Porter Musical and Literary Property Trusts