The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic account of Hollywood's inner workings--voted one of the century's top 100 journalistic works and called by Hemingway "much better than most novels". In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to[...]
On May 13, 1950, Lillian Ross's first portrait of Ernest Hemingway was published in The New Yorker. It was an account of two days Hemingway spent in New York in 1949 on his way from Havana to Europe. This candid and affectionate profile was tremendously controversial at the time, to the [...]
In this fascinating memoir, a renowned journalist tells the remarkable story of the passionate life she shared for forty years with William Shawn, legendary editor of The New Yorker. "An enduring love, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically[...]
"Lively, detailed, and filled with humanity and wit. Her tour of good writing [is] a wonderful journalism handbook, memoir, and addition to books on the New Yorker ."- Booklist . For half a century, Lillian Ross has been writing remarkable and timeless journalism for The New Yorker . Her spirited,[...]