{{short description|American writer and editor}} '''Bill Shapiro''' is an American writer and editor. He is best known for serving as the editor of ''LIFE'' magazine,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/business/media-life-to-be-reborn-again-as-a-newspaper-supplement.html|title=Media Life To Be Reborn Again As A Newspaper Supplement|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=17 December 2014}}</ref> and as the founding editor of LIFE.com.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2009/03/31/lifecom-launches)|title=Press Releases|publisher=Time Warner|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> ''LIFE'' magazine had not been published as a weekly for 32 years until Shapiro revived it in 2004. It resumed publication as a weekend supplement to U.S. newspapers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/business/media-life-to-be-reborn-again-as-a-newspaper-supplement.html)|title=MEDIA; Life to Be Reborn (Again), as a Newspaper Supplement|date=14 June 2004|work=Nytimes.com|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> This was the biggest launch in Time Inc. history,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2004/06/09/life-to-return-as-weekend-magazine-distributed-in-daily|title=LIFE to Return as Weekend Magazine Distributed in Daily Newspapers|publisher=Time Warner|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lowcountrynewspapers.net/archive/node/68569|title=Magazine has rebirth as weekend publication|publisher=Lowcountrynewspapers.net|access-date=18 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218042033/http://www.lowcountrynewspapers.net/archive/node/68569|archive-date=18 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> with a combined circulation of approximately 12 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/business/media-life-to-be-reborn-again-as-a-newspaper-supplement.html|title=Media : Life To Be Reborn Again As A Newspaper Supplement|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref>
LIFE.com was launched on March 31, 2009, in partnership with Getty Images.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2009/03/31/lifecom-launches|title=LIFE.com Launches|publisher=Time Warner|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> It won the National Magazine Award for digital photography in 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magazine.org/asme/about-asme/pressroom/asme-press-releases/national-magazine-awards-digital-media-winners-announced|title=National Magazine Awards : Digital Media Winners Announced|publisher=Magazine.orgh|access-date=18 December 2014|archive-date=18 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218061824/http://www.magazine.org/asme/about-asme/pressroom/asme-press-releases/national-magazine-awards-digital-media-winners-announced|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Webby Awards in 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2011/web/website-features-and-design/best-visual-design-aesthetic|title=2011 – The Webby Awards|publisher=Webbyawards.com|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> and 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2010/web/site-features-and-design-categories/best-homewelcome-page|title=2010 – The Webby Awards|publisher=Webbyawards.com|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> Shapiro collaborated with The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards on a children's book called Gus & Me, which was published in 2014,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/keith-richards/gus-me/|title=GUS & ME|author=Keith Richards|work=Kirkus Reviews|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/jim-aylesworths-my-grandfathers-coat-and-more.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As&_r=0|title=Jim Aylesworth's 'My Grandfather's Coat,' and More|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> and reached No.2 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list for children's books.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-10-12/picture-books/list.html|title=Best Sellers|work=Nytimes.com|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref> His previous book, ''Other People's Love Letters'', was published in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/164905/other-peoples-love-letters-by-bill-shapiro|title=Other People's Love Letters|work=Randomhouse.com|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Other People's Love Letters|isbn=978-0307382641|last1=Shapiro|first1=Bill|year=2007}}</ref> He graduated from Wesleyan University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/05/12/shapiro-87-edits-book-of-rejection-letters/|title=Shapiro '87 Edits Book of Rejection Letters|work=News @ Wesleyan|access-date=18 December 2014}}</ref>
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