Lillian Ross (journalist)

Lillian Ross (born June 8, 1927) is an American journalist and author who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1949. She was born in Syracuse, New York, the daughter of Louis and Edna (Rosenson) Ross. With the exception of her memoir Here but Not Here, about her relationship with William Shawn, she has been extremely reticent to make the details of her life public. In her writing she makes the narrator (herself) as invisible as she can, the very antithesis of Hunter S. Thompson.

Bibliography

• Portrait of Hemingway (originally published as a "Profile" in the New Yorker, May 13, 1950; Simon & Schuster (New York City), 1961. (Also included in Reporting.)
• Picture (account of the making of the film The Red Badge of Courage, originally published in the New Yorker), Rinehart (New York City), 1952, with foreword by Anjelica Huston, Anchor (New York City), 1993. (Also included in Reporting.)
• (With sister, Helen Ross) The Player: A Profile of an Art (interviews), Simon & Schuster, 1962, Limelight Editions, 1984.
• Vertical and Horizontal (short stories), Simon & Schuster, 1963.
• Reporting (articles originally published in the New Yorker, including "The Yellow Bus," "Symbol of All We Possess," "The Big Stone," "Terrific," "El Unico Matador," "Portrait of Hemingway," and "Picture"), Simon & Schuster, 1964, with new introduction by the author, Dodd (New York City), 1981.
• Adlai Stevenson, Lippincott (Philadelphia), 1966.
• Talk Stories (sixty stories first published in "The Talk of the Town" section of the New Yorker, 1958–65), Simon & Schuster, 1966.
• Reporting Two, Simon & Schuster, 1969.
• Moments with Chaplin, Dodd, 1980.
• Takes: Stories from "The Talk of the Town", Congdon & Weed (New York City), 1983.
• Here but Not Here: A Love Story (memoir), Random House, 1998.

Reference

• Contemporary Authors; Publisher: Thomson Gale.