Lily Koppel

Lily Koppel (born March 15, 1981) writes for The New York Times and other publications. Koppel is the author of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal, published by HarperCollins, [Koppel, Lily, "The Red Leather Diary", New York, 2008. ISBN 9780061256776] based on her New York Times City section cover story about her discovery of a young woman’s diary, kept in New York in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at 90. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/nyregion/thecity/16diar.html Koppel, Lily. "Speak, Memory." The New York Times. July 16, 2006.] ] Koppel recovered the diary from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of her building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Koppel got her start in journalism at The New York Times contributing reporting to the paper's Boldface Names celebrity column. [ [http://www.observer.com/node/49351 Schneider-Mayerson, Anna. "The Public Life of Joyce Wadler." The New York Observer. June 6, 2004.] ] [ [http://gawker.com/news/media/lily-koppel-bravest-gossip-reporter-ever-22788.php "The Bravest Gossip Reporter Ever." Gawker.com. October 6, 2004.] ] Koppel lives in New York City.

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* [http://www.redleatherdiary.com The Red Leather Diary - Official Website]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/koppel The New York Times Audio Slide Show: "Speak, Memory"]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/nyregion/thecity/16diar.html The New York Times Article: "Speak, Memory"]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061256776/The_Red_Leather_Diary/index.aspx HarperCollins The Red Leather Diary]
* [http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2008/03/7_friends?currentPage=5 Glamour Magazine, The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel]