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Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was an American author known for committing literary forgery. Her 2008 confessional autobiography Can You Ever Forgive Me? was adapted into the 2018 film of the same name starring Melissa McCarthy as Israel.
In 1991, following the critical and commercial failure of her biography of Estée Lauder, author Lee Israel struggles with financial troubles, writer's block, and alcoholism. Although she hopes to write a biography of comedian Fanny Brice , her agent, Marjorie, sharply rejects the idea and explains that Lee, with her difficult personality, is ...
Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg; [1] November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American theatre director, actor and acting teacher. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford , the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". [ 4 ]
Linda Claire Emery Lee Cadwell (née Emery; born March 21, 1945) [1] is a retired American teacher and writer, the widow of martial artist and actor Bruce Lee (1940–1973), and the mother of actor Brandon Lee (1965–1993) and actress Shannon Lee (born 1969). [2] She is the author of the Bruce Lee biography Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, upon ...
Isaac Asimov, novelist, short story writer and prolific author of nonfiction, known for his science fiction works about robots and for writing books in 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification [9] Shalom Auslander, novelist [10] Paul Auster, novelist [11] Dorothy Walter Baruch, author and child psychologist [12] Jonathan ...
In 1909 Israel published his first caricature, that of Jacob Gordin, for the weekly magazine Der groyser kundes under his pseudonym "Lola". [2] [3] He also illustrated various Yiddish books, and in 1953 he published a picturebook, Di amoliker ist said in bilder (The East Side of Yesteryear in Pictures), which depicts immigrants in Manhattan during the early 20th century.
Mariel Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress. She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe-nominated breakout role in Lipstick (1976), and she received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979).
Susan Lee Sontag (/ ˈ s ɒ n t æ ɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.