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Article: '84 Charing Cross Rd' author dies
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1997
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Helene Hanff, author of the best-seller 84 Charing Cross Road,
has died of pneumonia, aged 80.
Sheila Murphy, of Hanff's publishers Aurum Press, said the
author died on Wednesday afternoon in New York City.
Hanff captured the hearts of thousands by charting her
correspondence from New York with an antiquarian bookseller in
London between 1949 and 1969. The letters between the two ceased
when bookseller, Frank Doel, died.
The success of the book, first published in 1971, led to its
adaptation as a televisifelt to visit the city for the first time.
Hanff had arrived in London to publish 84 Charing Cross Road six
months after the bookshop of which she wrote closed in 1971.
Her two other books, ...