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Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is best known as the author of the book 84, Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a stage play, [1] television play, and film of the same name.
Apr 11, 1997 · Helene Hanff, whose wittily acerbic 20-year correspondence with a London bookseller she never met won her a passionate following after it was published as the epistolary memoir ''84, Charing...
Helene Hanff, writer and broadcaster: born Philadelphia 15 April 1916; broadcaster, Woman's Hour, BBC 1978-85; author of Underfoot in Show Business 1961, 84 Charing Cross Road 1970, The Duchess...
Jul 13, 2015 · In 1946, an impoverished book-lover scraping a living in New York, Helene Hanff started to order obscure books of English literature from the London firm of Marks & Co. She was a passionate Anglophile, and wanted to have real English books that she could afford rather than pay a fortune for horrible American reprints.
Apr 9, 1997 · Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916–April 9, 1997) was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is best known as the author of the book 84 Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a play, teleplay, and film of the same name.
These are my pages on the late author Helene Hanff who became famous from her book "84, Charing Cross Road", and whom I met in New York in November 1994. My Helene Hanff site has been running since 1997 and in the background since then I have been compiling a biography on her - and two accompanying photo books.
These are my pages on the late author Helene Hanff who became famous from her book "84, Charing Cross Road", and whom I met in New York in November 1994.