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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 ...
Nahida Lazarus, German author, essayist, scholar, and literary critic; Natasha Leggero, American actress and comedian; John Lehr, American film and television actor and comedian; Julius Lester, son of a Methodist minister and a children's author (ex-Methodist) [78] Joan Lunden, American journalist, author and television host
Writer Dani Shapiro (born April 10, 1962) is an American writer, the author of six novels including Family History (2003), Black & White (2007) and most recently Signal Fires (2022) [ 1 ] and the best-selling memoirs Slow Motion (1998), Devotion (2010), Hourglass (2017), and Inheritance (2019). [ 2 ]
Estée Lauder (/ ˈ ɛ s t eɪ ˈ l ɔː d ər / EST-ay LAW-dər; born Josephine Esther Mentzer; July 1, 1908 [1] – April 24, 2004) was an American businesswoman. [2] [3] [4] She co-founded her eponymous cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauter (later Lauder). [5]
Gaetano "Gay" Talese (/ t ə ˈ l iː z /; born February 7, 1932) [1] is an American writer. As a journalist for The New York Times and Esquire magazine during the 1960s, he helped to define contemporary literary journalism and is considered, along with Joan Didion, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of New Journalism. [2]
Hila Klein, Israeli-born American podcast host and fashion designer, who is also the wife of Ethan Klein; Shuki Levy, Israeli-born American music composer whose best known work is soundtrack compositions for children's television programs of the 1980s. Ephrat Livni, artist, writer, and lawyer; Rod Lurie, director, screenwriter, and film critic
This list of Canadian Jews includes notable Canadian Jews or Canadians of Jewish descent, arranged by field of activity. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.