Dorothy Gallagher (born 1935) is an American

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ist and biographer known for her two biographies '' All the Right Enemies,'' her biography on Italian-American anarchist

Carlo Tresca Carlo Tresca (March 9, 1879 – January 11, 1943) was an Italian-American dissident, newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer and activist who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leadi ...

and a 1988

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Notable Book of the Year, and '' Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life'' a critical biography of writer and playwright Lilian Hellman.

Background

Dorothy Gallagher was born in 1935 and raised in New York City.

Career

Gallagher started out as a features editor for

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before becoming a freelance writer whose work has been published in ''

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'', and '' Grand Street.''

Works

Gallgher is also known for her memoirs ''Hannah's Daughters'', '' How I Came into My Inheritance'', ''Strangers in the House'', and ''Stories I Forgot to Tell You'' (which memorializes her marriage to

Ben Sonnenberg Benjamin Sonnenberg, Jr. (December 30, 1936 – June 24, 2010) was an American publisher and the founder of the literary magazine '' Grand Street'', which he began as a quarterly journal in 1981. Sonnenberg was born on December 30, 1936, in Man ...

). ;Books * ''Hannah's daughters: six generations of an American family, 1876-1976'' (1976) * ''All the right enemies: the life and murder of Carlo Tresca'' (1988) * ''How I came into my inheritance: and other true stories'' (2001) * ''Life stories'' aka ''Strangers in the house: life stories'' (2006) * ''Mural at the Waverly Inn : a portrait of Greenwich Village bohemians / Edward Sorel'' (2008) * ''Lillian Hellman: an imperious life'' (2014) * ''If you're ever back this way'' (2020) * ''Stories I forgot to tell you'' (2020) ;Articles * "My Father's House," ''The Atlantic Monthly'' (2023)

References

1935 births Living people American biographers American women writers Memoirists from New York (state) {{US-bio-writer-stub