Contains materials relating to Lillian Ross’s career as a journalist and author, including files relating to her work and writing at The New Yorker, as well as files, drafts, and galleys for her publications, including Talk Stories, Takes, The Fun of It, Reporting, Reporting Always, Reporting Back, and some files related to Portrait of Hemingway, The Player, Adlai Stevenson, and Moments with Chaplin. Additionally contains files for many additional stories and profiles written for The New Yorker and elsewhere, as well as correspondence, contracts, photographs, clippings and copies. Many small notebooks used by Ross in her research process, as well as some audio and video cassettes, are included. Further materials include personal materials and those relating to William Shawn, the longtime editor of The New Yorker. The collection contains materials relating to her projects related to Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger, both of whom became friends, but not any direct correspondence between Ross and either author.
