Barbara Epstein Dies

Barbara Epstein, a founder and co-editor of The New York Review of Books who was involved in editing "The Diary of Anne Frank" early in her career, died Friday at age 76.

Epstein died of lung cancer at her Manhattan home, said Robert Silvers, her longtime co-editor at the book review.

For more than 40 years at the magazine, Epstein guided the work of literary luminaries such as Gore Vidal and Joyce Carol Oates. She left her mark on each piece, Silvers said.

"She had the very highest critical standard," he said. "She never felt that the merely competent, the merely adequate, would do."

Rest In Peace, Barbara.