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Article: HELENE HANFF, 80, AUTHOR OF `84, CHARING CROSS ROAD'.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 12, 1997
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Byline: Margalit Fox The New York Times
Helene Hanff, whose wittily acerbic 20-year correspondence with a London bookseller she never met won her a passionate following after it was published as the epistolary memoir 84, Charing Cross Road, died Wednesday at the De Witt Nursing Home in Manhattan. She was 80.
Up to the book's publication in 1970, Ms. Hanff was a relatively unheralded free-lance writer whose work centered on television screenplays and children's books.
But the letters she addressed to the antiquarian bookshop Marks & Co. from 1949 to 1969, with their shared confidences and affectionate needling, along with orders for Jane Austen ...