Dorothy Gallagher Explained

Dorothy Gallagher
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.

Dorothy Gallagher (born 1935) is an American memoirist and biographer known for her two biographies All the Right Enemies, her biography on Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca and a 1988 New York Times Notable Book of the Year,^[1] and ^[2] a critical biography of writer and playwright Lilian Hellman.

Background

Dorothy Gallagher was born in 1935 and raised in New York City.

Career

Gallagher started out as a features editor for Redbook Magazine before becoming a freelance writer whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and Grand Street.^[3]

Works

Gallgher is also known for her memoirs Hannah's Daughters, How I Came into My Inheritance, Strangers in the House, and Stories I Forgot to Tell You (which memorializes her marriage to Ben Sonnenberg).^[4]

Books

• Hannah's daughters: six generations of an American family, 1876-1976 (1976)
• All the right enemies: the life and murder of Carlo Tresca (1988)
• How I came into my inheritance: and other true stories (2001)
• Life stories aka Strangers in the house: life stories (2006)
• Mural at the Waverly Inn : a portrait of Greenwich Village bohemians / Edward Sorel (2008)
• Lillian Hellman: an imperious life (2014)
• If you're ever back this way (2020)
• Stories I forgot to tell you (2020)

Articles

• "My Father's House," The Atlantic Monthly (2023)

Notes and References

1. News: 1988-12-04 . CHRISTMAS BOOKS; NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-08-03 . 0362-4331.
2. Web site: 2014 . Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life Jewish Book Council . 2022-08-03 . www.jewishbookcouncil.org . en.
3. Web site: Random House Books . 2022-08-03 . www.randomhousebooks.com.
4. News: Grimes . William . 2010-06-26 . Ben Sonnenberg, Founder of Literary Journal, Dies at 73 . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-08-03 . 0362-4331.