Lee Israel was the author of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Estee Lauder: Beyond the Magic, Kilgallen, and Miss Tallulah Bankhead. She also worked as a copyeditor for Scholastic and American Express Publishing. She died in 2015.
"Israel displayed an excellent ear and fine false turn of
phrase...Now, all these years later, she's written a slender,
sordid and pretty damned fabulous book about her
misadventures...There's no honor in anything she did, but after
reading Can You Ever Forgive Me? it's hard to resist admitting
Israel to the company of such sharp, gallant characters as Dawn
Powell and Helene Hanff, women clinging to New York literary life,
or its fringes, by their talented fingernails." -- Thomas Mallon,
The New York Times Book Review
"Lee Israel is deft, funny and eminently entertaining...She also
has a good tale to tell. "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" offers a gentle
parable about the modern culture of fame, about those who worship
it, those who strive for it and those who trade in its relics." --
Jonathan Lopez, The Associated Press
"With her witty, jeweled prose and her troubling antics, literary
outlaw and minx Lee Israel is once again causing a ruckus. Do I
trust her and her admission of guilt? Do I condone her actions? I'm
loving the experience of trying to answer these questions." --
Henry Alford, investigative humorist, author of Big Kiss, Municipal
Bondage, and contributing editor to Vanity Fair
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