The Red Leather Diary
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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.

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