| LC control no. | n 80050830 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ross, Lillian, 1918-2017 |
| Variant(s) | Rosovsky, Lillian, 1918-2017 Ross, Lillian, 1927- |
| Other standard no. | 0000000354113863 20195021 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6548201 |
| Located | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1918-06-08 |
| Death date | 2017-09-20 |
| Place of birth | Syracuse (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists |
| Found in | Her Picture, 1952. Contemp. auth. (Ross, Lillian, 1927- ) Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (journalistic staff of the New Yorker) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 21, 2017 (in obituary published Sept. 20: Lillian Ross; b. Lillian Rosovsky, June 8, 1918, Syracuse; grew up in Syracuse and in Brooklyn; d. Wednesday [Sept. 20, 2017], Manhattan, aged 99; 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) New Yorker, 2 October 2017: page 21, in Talk of the Town obituary by Rebecca Mead (Lillian joined the New Yorker in 1945, and she continued to appear in its pages for the next seventy-odd years, which means that she was not just a contributor but a creator -- one of those whose style and tone became a standard to which later writers aspired.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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