Lily Koppel

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Lily Koppel (born March 15, 1981) writes for The New York Times and other publications. Koppel is the author of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal, published by HarperCollins,^[1] based on her New York Times City section cover story about her discovery of a young woman’s diary, kept in New York in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at 90.^[2] Koppel recovered the diary from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of her building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Koppel got her start in journalism at The New York Times contributing reporting to the paper's Boldface Names celebrity column.^[3][4] Koppel lives in New York City.

[edit] References

1. ^ Koppel, Lily, The Red Leather Diary, New York, 2008. ISBN 9780061256776
2. ^ Koppel, Lily. "Speak, Memory." The New York Times. July 16, 2006.
3. ^ Schneider-Mayerson, Anna. "The Public Life of Joyce Wadler." The New York Observer. June 6, 2004.
4. ^ "The Bravest Gossip Reporter Ever." Gawker.com. October 6, 2004.

[edit] External links

• The Red Leather Diary - Official Website
• The New York Times Audio Slide Show: "Speak, Memory"
• The New York Times Article: "Speak, Memory"
• HarperCollins The Red Leather Diary
• Glamour Magazine, The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel