FEIBLEMAN, Peter.
Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman.
New York: William Morrow and Company , 1988.
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First Edition of Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman, from the Library of Composer Charles Strouse
First edition of Feibleman’s intimate memoir of the playwright Lillian Hellman. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman, with Strouse’s ownership stamp to the half-title page. Over his 50-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, and Annie, as well as the theme song for the classic sitcom All in the Family (“Those Were the Days”). His partnership with Martin Charnin on Annie produced one of Broadway’s most successful scores ever, with “Tomorrow” and other songs from the production becoming enduring American musical standards admired by generations. His reach knew no genre or generation, from a number-one Billboard hit in 1958 to Jay-Z’s Grammy-winning sampling of “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” four decades later, and his honors include three Tony Awards and induction into both the Songwriters and Theater Halls of Fame. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti. Jacket photograph by Irving Penn.
Peter Feibleman’s Lilly, published in 1988, is a candid and affectionate memoir of the playwright Lillian Hellman, with whom Feibleman shared a close and complicated friendship of more than thirty years and to whom he was companion in her final years. Hellman, author of The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes, and the memoirs An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento, was among the most prominent American dramatists of the twentieth century, as celebrated for her defiance of the House Un-American Activities Committee as for her plays. Feibleman, himself a novelist and playwright, was named her literary executor.
Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman.
$75.00
In Stock
