The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal is a non-fiction book by Lily Koppel

Lily Koppel

Lily Koppel is a writer living in New York. Her book, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal was published by HarperCollins on April 1, 2008 and is to be released in paperback on January 20, 2009...

 about a discarded 75-year-old diary, rescued from a dumpster, based on Koppel's 2006 New York Times City section cover story. The diary was kept from 1929 to 1934 by a young Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

ite with literary and artistic aspirations. With the help of a private investigator, Koppel found the diarist, 90-year-old Florence Wolfson Howitt.

External links

• The Red Leather Diary Official Website
• Lily Koppel's Blog

Links to Reviews

• The New York Times Article: "Speak, Memory" by Lily Koppel
• The New York Times Audio Slide Show: "Speak, Memory" with Lily Koppel and Florence Wolfson Howitt
• The New York Times Book Review
• Chicago Tribune Book Review
• Glamour Magazine
• Parade
• Ladies Home Journal
• The New York Post
• USA Today Book Buzz
• AM New York
• Bookpage
• The Forward
• The Richmond Times Dispatch
• Baltimore City Paper