- He started out in 1940 as an editor at Harcourt, Brace & Co. He eventually became frustrated that Harcourt was becoming dominated by textbooks.
- In 1955, he left to join Farrar, Straus. By then, he had such a solid reputation in the publishing world that more than a dozen writers soon signed with Farrar, Straus. They included Flannery O'Connor, Bernard Malamud, and T.S. Eliot.
- During Giroux's 60-year career in publishing, he worked with some of the world's most famous writers, including Nobel laureates Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott.
- He was a star student at Columbia University. His classmates included Herman Wouk, Thomas Merton, and John Berryman.
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