Leo Lerman

Background

Lerman was born in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Ida (née Goldwasser) and Samuel Lerman.

Education

Student, Feagin School Drama Arts, 1 year.

Career

Lerman also wrote for the New York Herald Tribune, Harper"s Bazaar, Dance Magazine, and Playbill. He grew up in East Harlem and Queens, New New York He was openly gay. Selections from his journals, roughly 10 percent of the writings, were published in 2007 as Meant to be the source material for a novel he never wrote, the journals detail his social and business interactions with a remarkable number of famous and important people who passed through the New York arts scene from the 1940s to the "90s.

Lerman died in New York City on August 22, 1994.

He was 80.

Achievements

• Leo Lerman has been listed as a notable writer, editor in chief by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Scenic Artists American (past president costume division).

Connections

Father:

Samuel Lerman

Mother:

Ida (Goldwasser) Lerman