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Lillian Ross

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New Yorker writer Lillian Ross tells a love story of the passionate life she shared for forty years with William Shawn, The New Yorker's famous editor. Shawn was married, yet Ross and Shawn created a home together a dozen blocks south of the Shawns' apartment, raised a child, and lived with discretion. Their lives intertwined from the 1950s until Shawn's death, in 1992. Ross describes now they met and the intense connection between them; how Shawn worked with some of the best writers of the period; how, to escape their developing liaison, Ross moved to Hollywood, and there wrote the famous pieces that became Picture, the classic story of the making of a movie - John Huston's The Red Badge of Courdge - only to return to New York and to the relationship.

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OL Work ID
OL21929W

Subjects

BiographyWomen journalistsNew Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)Periodical editorsBiografierKvinnliga journalisterUnited states, biographyNew York Times reviewedWomen, united states, biographyEditorsJournalists, biography

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