Dorothy Gallagher
Dorothy Gallagher is an American memoirist and biographer known for her two biographies All [the Right Enemies], her biography on Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca and a 1988 The [New York Times|New York Times] Notable Book of the Year, and Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life a critical biography of writer and playwright Lilian Hellman.
Background
Dorothy Gallagher was born in 1935 and raised in New York City.Career
Gallagher started out as a features editor for Redbook Magazine before becoming a freelance writer whose work has been published in New York Times Magazine">The New York Times">New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and ''Grand Street.''Works
Gallgher is also known for her memoirs Hannah's Daughters, How I Came into My Inheritance, Strangers in the House, and Stories I Forgot to Tell You.;Books
- Hannah's daughters: six generations of an American family, 1876-1976
- All the right enemies: the life and murder of Carlo Tresca
- How I came into my inheritance: and other true stories
- Life stories aka Strangers in the house: life stories
- Mural at the Waverly Inn : a portrait of Greenwich Village bohemians / Edward Sorel
- Lillian Hellman: an imperious life
- If you're ever back this way
- Stories I forgot to tell you
- "My Father's House," ''The Atlantic Monthly''