Leo Lerman

Leo Lerman (May 23, 1914, New York City – August 22, 1994, New York City) was an American writer and editor who worked for Condé Nast Publications for more than 50 years.^[1] Lerman also wrote for the New York Herald Tribune, Harper's Bazaar, Dance Magazine, and Playbill.^[2]

Lerman grew up in a Jewish immigrant family in East Harlem and Queens, New York. As a child, he accompanied his house-painter grandfather and father on various jobs in upper-class homes.^[3] He was openly gay.^[4]

Selections from his journals, roughly 10 percent of the writings,^[3] were published in 2007 as The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman.^[5] Meant to be the source material for a novel he never wrote, the journals detail his social and business interactions with a remarkable number of famous and important people who passed through the New York arts scene from the 1940s to the '90s.

Bibliography

Lerman, Leo (edited by Stephen Pascal). The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman. Knopf, ISBN 978-1400044399

References

^ Grimes, William (August 23, 1994). Leo Lerman, 80, Editor at Conde Nast Magazines. New York Times
^ Gabriel, Trip (November 8, 1994). Leo Lerman Remembered for Buoyant Style, Wit and Elegance. New York Times
^ ^a ^b Amanda Fortini, "So, You Want To Be a Star? Leo Lerman's Gossipy Journals Offer Lessons on Fame", Slate, July 2, 2007
^ Lerman, Leo (2007), Stephen Pascal, ed., The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman, Knopf, ISBN 978-1400044399
^ Schillinger, Liesl (April 22, 2007). Life of the Party. New York Times

External links

Leo Lerman Papers at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University
Leo Lerman at the Internet Movie Database

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Date of birth	May 23, 1914
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Date of death	August 22, 1994
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