Background
She was born Lillian Rosovsky in Syracuse, New York, around 1918 or 1919, according to census records, and raised in Brooklyn, the youngest of three children of Louis and Edna (née Rosenson) Rosovsky.
(From the jacket: The Player Lillian Ross and Helen Ross (...)
From the jacket: The Player Lillian Ross and Helen Ross (with photographs). In this book fifty-five outstanding actors and actresses of our time are given an opportunity to play themselves. Appearing in a vast drama arranged for them by the authors, Lillian Ross and Helen Ross. They make their separate entrances and speak lines that reveal who they are, how they became what they are, what they think about themselves and their work, and how they go about creating the theatrical illusion that helps sustain the rest of us mortals. Employing a literary form they devised for the purpose the authors let these fifty-five people tell their own stories, and seeing actors as artists whose medium is nothing more and nothing less than themselves. Let them make the most of the first person singular. By the time the final curtain falls this large and wonderful company has conjured up the entire world of the theatre and in the process not only has conveyed the meaning and substance of fifty-five extremely individual lives but has put together, once and for all a portrait of the quintessential actor. The Player.
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She was born Lillian Rosovsky in Syracuse, New York, around 1918 or 1919, according to census records, and raised in Brooklyn, the youngest of three children of Louis and Edna (née Rosenson) Rosovsky.
Her elder siblings were Helen and Simon. With the exception of her memoir Here but Not Here, she has always been reluctant to discuss her private or personal life, much of which was spent with New York journalist/editor William Shawn. "Nothing for Lillian Ross in William Shawn"s will", observer.com
"William Shawn - stud or saint?: the memories of Lillian Ross and Ved Mehta
Profile, nytimes.com
Profile, nymag.com
Juris Doctor Salinger infosite
"Lillian Ross does Katharine Hepburn", slate.com
Profile, old.post-gazette.com.
(From the jacket: The Player Lillian Ross and Helen Ross (...)
(hardcover with dust jacket. stated first printing.)
(small black paperback)
1 child, Erik Jeremy.