[Publib] 84, Charing Cross Road: 60 years later

[Nann Blaine Hilyard]

http://withstringsattached.blogspot.com

>From today's edition of "The Writer's Almanac"
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/?refid=3
"It was on this day in 1949 that Helene Hanff wrote her third letter from New York City to a used bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road, London. It was the beginning of a flirtatious epistolary friendship across the Atlantic that lasted for 20 years and revolved around classic literature. The letters were collected into 84, Charing Cross Road, a book Hanff published in 1970 and later adapted for the London stage, into a Broadway production, and into a film starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins (1987).....


Nann Blaine Hilyard, director
Zion-Benton Public Library
2400 Gabriel Ave.
Zion, IL  60099
847-872-4680  x 110
847-872-4942 fax
www.zblibrary.org<http://www.zblibrary.org/>


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