"Robert Loomis"@en . "Robert D. Loomis"@en . "1926Z"^^ . . . . "Robert Loomis (born 1926) is a book editor; he worked at Random House from 1957 to 2011. He has been called \"one of publishing's hall of fame editors.\"Many of Loomis' authors had worked with him for decades, including Maya Angelou, who wrote 31 books under his editorship, beginning her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). His authors' loyalty to him and him to them was almost legendary."@en . "Author of \"Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II\"" . "Loomis, Robert"@en .