Former associates at the magazine accused her of betrayal. In 1998 she published “ Here but Not Here: A Love Story,” describing her 50-year love affair with William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker, who was married to someone else and who, if anything, had even been more compulsively guarded about his private life than Ms. Do not call attention to yourself.”īut late in life her writing took a surprising turn from third person to first. She outlined her credo in the preface to her book “Reporting” (1964): “ Your attention at all times should be on your subject, not on you. Ross preached unobtrusive reporting and practiced what she preached. Her longtime editor, Susan Morrison, said the death, at Lenox Hill Hospital, was caused by a stroke.
Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.Lillian Ross, who became known as the consummate fly-on-the-wall reporter in more than six decades at The New Yorker, whether writing about Ernest Hemingway, Hollywood or a busload of Indiana high school seniors on a class trip to New York, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.Ross describes how they met and the intense connection between them how Shawn worked with the best writers of the period how, to escape their developing liaison, Ross moved to Hollywood-only to return to New York and to the relationship Book Details Their lives intertwined from the 1950s until Shawn's death in 1992. 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. An enduring love, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically normal to the couple immersed in it, so I would have to say that I had an intrinsically normal life for over four decades with William Shawn.
In this memoir, a renowned journalist tells the remarkable story of the passionate life she shared for 40 years with William Shawn, legendary editor of The New Yorker.
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