The worlds of Broadway, Hollywood and New York publishing merged in a budding celebrity community. While Ross kept writing until the post 9/11 era, she is known for witnessing the glittering postwar era that lasted into the 1960s when well-known people mingled at New York restaurants and night spots. The piece emphasizes a profile of Robin Williams that Ross did when Williams was just emerging as a star. As Brown reflects in the article, Ross in her later years stayed energized by the newest movies and young stars. While The Times' Penelope Green reports that Ross has lived in the same upper East Side apartment since 1958 amid furniture selected by Shawn, she highlights Ross' ability to remain current into the 21st century with her New Yorker work. Like the still active Roger Angell, she began her career at the magazine when legendary founder Harold Ross was still alive, and stayed there through the great years and then decline under Shawn, the years adrift under Robert Gottlieb, and the revival under Tina Brown and David Remnick.Īt 97, Ross received recognition from a chronicler of today's young New York hipsters the noted writer of profiles was profiled herself in The New York Times' Thursday Styles section. Ross began writing for the New Yorker in 1945 and continued until 2011. Now, Ross deserves fresh acclaim for her New Yorker work, with the publication of a collection, "Reporting Always: Writings From the New Yorker." The book includes her late 1940s profile of Hemingway, which defined the boorish "Papa" character of the writer's final years.
The scandal over that book overshadowed Ross' reputation as a New Yorker writer.
In a notorious memoir, Ross disclosed her longtime relationship with famed New Yorker editor William Shawn, published while Shawn's widow was still alive.
Lillian Ross is celebrated for her profile of Ernest Hemingway and her book on director John Huston's filming of "The Red Badge of Courage." Yet she hasn't received the veneration given to other New Yorker writers like Joseph Mitchell, A.J.
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