Lillian Ross

In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she would follow the movie's progress "in order to learn whatever I might learn about the American motion-picture industry." What resulted was …

Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker is a book by Lillian Ross.