Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
New Yorker writer Lillian Ross tells a love story of the passionate life she shared for forty years with William Shawn, The New Yorker's famous editor.
Read more
Shawn was married, yet Ross and Shawn created a home together a dozen blocks south of the Shawns' apartment, raised a child, and lived with discretion. Their lives intertwined from the 1950s until Shawn's death, in 1992.
Ross describes now they met and the intense connection between them; how Shawn worked with some of the best writers of the period; how, to escape their developing liaison, Ross moved to Hollywood, and there wrote the famous pieces that became Picture, the classic story of the making of a movie - John Huston's The Red Badge of Courdge - only to return to New York and to the relationship.
Liked Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith Shares memoir, nonfiction, biography
-
The Best of Friends: Martha and Me Shares memoir, nonfiction, biography -
Finding Martha's Place: My Journey Through Sin, Salvation, and Lots of Soul Food Shares memoir, nonfiction, biography -
Life in a Marital Institution: Twenty Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Memoir Shares memoir, nonfiction, biography
