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Lee Israel died in New York City on December 24, 2014, from myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells. According to a New York Times obituary, she had lived alone and had no children. [4] Regarding her family, she wrote in her memoir, "I had a brother with whom I had never had much in common."
Jan 8, 2015 · An obituary on Thursday about the author Lee Israel misspelled the given name of the writer who reviewed Ms. Israel’s book “Estée Lauder: Beyond the Magic” for The New York Times Book...
Oct 19, 2018 · For Lee Israel, a celebrity biographer by trade and the subject of Melissa McCarthy’s new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the best way to acquire such letters was to buy an old...
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Feb 22, 2019 · Lee Israel came late to a life of crime. Though her forgeries of letters from luminaries like Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker, and Ernest Hemingway would ultimately become a far more enduring...
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When her writing career stalled, Lee Israel, now profiled in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," turned to literary forgery and theft. Lee Israel's life and illegal letter forgery will be the subject of an upcoming movie starring Melissa McCarthy.
Jul 24, 2008 · Lee Israel forged more than 400 letters from Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and other literary celebrities, a criminal career she recounts in her book, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
Oct 19, 2018 · 5 fascinating stories about Lee Israel, the real person behind Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy plays the biographer turned literary forger in the new film based on Israel’s memoir.
