Dorothy Gallagher's debt to her copy editor Helene Pleasants

Dorothy Gallagher, author of Hannah's Daughers (1976), All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca (1988), How I Came into My Inheritance (2001), Strangers in the House: Life Stories (Random House, 2006), and co-author of Mural at the Waverly Inn: A Portrait of Greenwich Village Bohemians (Knopf, 2008), reveals her debt to Helene Pleasants in a moving essay "What My Copy Editor Taught Me" in the New York Times (September 26, 2008).

Links for Dorothy Gallagher:

Laura Shaine Cunningham, "Beyond the Pale," review of How I Came Into My Inheritance in New York Times (March 4, 2001).

First chapter, How I Came Into My Inheritance (NYT, March 4, 2001).

Dorothy Gallagher, "Fanny Girls," about Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues in New Statesman (May 28, 2001).

Keith Gessen, "Before the Boom," a review of Strangers in the House in the New York Times (July 23, 2006).

First chapter Strangers in the House (NYT, July 23, 2006).

Patricia Cohen, "Dorothy Gallagher's Clear-Eyed Self-Revelations," New York Times (August 18, 2006).