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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 ]
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 ...
Miranda Lee was born in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. She is the daughter of a school teacher and a dressmaker, she was the youngest of four children. [1] She worked as programmer until her marriage, they had three daughters. In 1990, she published her first novels in Mills & Boon. [1] She was the sister of Emma Darcy (Wendy ...
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Schulberg was married four times. In 1936, he married his first wife, actress Virginia "Jigee" Lee Ray. [19] They had one daughter, Victoria, before divorcing in 1942. [20] In 1943, he married Victoria "Vickee" Anderson. They divorced in 1964. [21] They had two children: Stephen (born 1944) and David (born 1946). [22]
Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. In 2008, she was named Official State Author of New York.