Author Description

Each year, hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre... One in a thousand turns out to be Noel Coward. This book is about life among the other 999. By one of them. Helene Hanff arrived in New York City as a prize-winning Theatre Guild protegee with a brilliant future ahead of her. Little did she suspect that her life would be governed by Flanagan's Law: "No matter what happens to you, it's unexpected." So naturally, all the producers who were going to produce her plays didn't, and all the agents who were going to sell her plays couldn't. Nevertheless, she managed to have a grand time - seeing every new show in town without buying tickets, "borrowing" special outfits from Saks, surviving the rigors of summer stock. This witty and exuberant memoir by the author of the widely praised 84, Charing Cross Road will delight all those among us who have felt - however briefly - the lure of the footlights.