Lizzie Gottlieb’s Film Celebrates a Legendary Literary Duo

One of the hottest films right now is a documentary about—how to say this gently?—two old men. But it has taken the daughter of one of these men to give us an inside look at one of the great collaborations in literature.

The movie is called Turn Every Page, and it is about the five-decade-long relationship between the master historian Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb. Lizzie Gottlieb, Robert's daughter, has spent the last seven years on the film, first convincing the men to agree to be the subject of her film. “My father said no no no,” recalls Lizzie, “but finally, probably out of irritation, he agreed. He said Caro would likely not agree, but I could WRITE him a letter–on paper—to ask. Caro couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to watch a movie about a writer and editor (guess he hasn’t seen Front Page?) and said okay as long as I promised never to have them in the same room at work together.” (Stay tuned for a spoiler alert.)