The Red Leather Diary... Book Discussion

Cost: Free!

Lily Koppel will discuss and read from her book, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal (HarperCollins, 2008). Evocative and entrancing, it is the story of her discovery of a young woman's diary, kept in New York in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at 90. Salvaged from a steamer trunk in a dumpster, Koppel reveals the world of a New York teenager, obsessed with the state of her soul and her appearance, and muses on the serendipitous chain of events that returned the lost journal to its owner.

Location:
NYPL
Mid-Manhattan Branch
455 Fifth Ave.
(212) 340-0833‎

Directions:
B, D, F, V (Bryant Park)
7 (5th Ave)

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