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Lee Israel died in New York City on December 24, 2014, from myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells. According to a New York Times obituary, she had lived alone and had no children. [4] Regarding her family, she wrote in her memoir, "I had a brother with whom I had never had much in common." [10]: 111
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 ...
Laurie Lee's childhood home, Bank Cottages (now Rosebank Cottage), in the village of Slad. Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 June 1914, son of civil servant Reginald Joseph Lee (1877-1947) and Annie Emily (1879-1950), née Light, and moved with his family to the village of Slad in 1917; this relocation opens Lee's novel Cider with Rosie.
Born in Raymond, Mississippi in 1895, the eldest of nine children, Lee was the daughter of Benjamin Floyd Lee, "a self-taught druggist" and son of a planter, and Mary Maud (McWilliams) Lee, whose father was a physician. [1] Three of her siblings died in infancy. Her parents encouraged her early interest in literature and art.
Daughter of militia captain (William) Gilbert Hyde-Lees (1865–1909), of the Manchester Regiment, [3] and Edith Ellen (1868–1942) known as "Nelly", daughter of barrister and manufacturer Montagu Woodmass, JP, [4] [5] Georgie was born in Fleet, Hampshire on 16 October 1892.
Lee Bennett Hopkins (April 13, 1938 – August 8, 2019) was an American educator, poet, author, and anthologist. He was the author or editor of over 100 books for children, as well as a number of books and articles for adults.
Malka Lee (Yiddish: מלכה לי) (July 4, 1904 – March 22, 1976 [1]) was an American poet and author.She is the author of Durkh Kindershe Oygn (Through the Eyes of Childhood), published in 1955 and dedicated to her family, who were killed by the Nazis in the shtetl of Monastrishtsh (now Monastyryska, Ukraine) in 1941, as well as six volumes of poetry in Yiddish, her mother tongue, much of ...
Lee is the author of thirty-seven published books and ten published chapbooks and he is the editor of nearly ten published anthologies. A popular performer of children's poems and songs, he has been a writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor, Kitchener Public Library, and Hillfield Strathallen private school.