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Helene Hanff has 6 past events. (show)  The Oxmoor Page Turners Book Club Join us as we delve into two delightful works by Helene Hanff. 84, Charing Cross Road is the story of the twenty-year correspondence between an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller, which becomes increasingly touching. In the sequel, The Duchess of Bloomsbury, New Yorker Hanff travels to England to meet her pen pals firsthand. One of the subtlest, sharpest, most moving relationships ever formed between pen pals!
This club meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm in the Boardoom. All interested adults are welcome. (Muscogulus)… (more)
Adults Only! Book Club Helen Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road. There are many children's books that we hold dear to our hearts, but what do we really know about their authors? This book club, for adults only, will feature titles that provide insight into the mind and lifestyle of the word slingers. Join Jean on the second Monday of each month to discuss what we think may have affected the writings and lifeview of each "chosen" author. Mudslinging and snacks will be involved . . . The next meeting will be Monday, July 12th @ 7:00 PM. We will discuss 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff. (omayao)… (more)
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Cause of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | Helene Hanff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents loved the theater and even during the Great Depression managed to find ways to get tickets to shows for the family. She grew up wanting to become a playwright. Her literary career began in 1938, when she won a competition for a fellowship from the Bureau of New Plays and moved to Manhattan. There she became a protégé of Theresa Helburn, a co-producer of the Theater Guild. However, although she wrote 20 plays through the 1940's, none were produced. She later described her struggles in a 1961 memoir, Underfoot in Show Business. She found a new career writing for television when production of the new medium was centered in New York City in the early 1950s. Among the TV dramas she wrote for were The Adventures of Ellery Queen. All the while, she continued to try to get one of her plays produced on Broadway. When the bulk of the TV industry moved to California, Hanff chose to remain in New York. She turned to writing for magazines and eventually to books. Her hugely popular epistolary work 84, Charing Cross Road, first published in 1970, chronicled her 20 years of correspondence with Frank Doel, the chief buyer for Marks & Co., a London bookshop. She became so involved in the lives of the shop's staff that she sent them food parcels during Britain's post-World War II shortages, and shared with them details of her life. A TV adaptation aired in Britain in 1975, a film version was made in 1987 starring Anne Bancroft, and a Broadway play was produced in 1982. Hanff wrote several other works, and put her obsession with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch to use in a book called Q's Legacy (1985), which served as a prequel to 84 Charing Cross Road and also recounted the aftermath of her book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street (1973). Other books included Apple of My Eye (1977) and Letter from New York (1992), which reprinted the five-minute talks she gave each month on the BBC's Woman's Hour radio broadcasts between 1978 and 1984. Underfoot in Show Business was adapted as a stage play in 2008 and produced at the Devonshire Theatre in Eastbourne, UK.  | |
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