Dorothy Herrmann, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-399-13154-7
In this well-researched but humdrum biography of the noted Brooklyn-born author (19041979)""he preferred to be thought of as a writer, not a humorist''we follow Perelman's experiences from a poor Jewish boyhood in Providence, R.I. and aspiring...
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Dorothy Herrmann, Author Penguin Books $14.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-14-023238-7
A lively, well-written biography of Charles Lindbergh's wife that nevertheless fails to provide sufficient critical analysis of her life and writing. Photos. (Dec.)
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Dorothy Herrmann, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-395-56114-0
The eventful life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-) is here the subject of a lively, well-written but ultimately disappointing biography. Relying heavily upon her subject's five published volumes of diaries and letters, Herrmann ( S. J. Perelman )...
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Dorothy Herrmann, Author, Dorothy Hermann, Author Knopf Publishing Group $30 (394p) ISBN 978-0-679-44354-4
Since William Gibson's 1959 play and, later, the film The Miracle Worker, Keller (1880-1968) has been overshadowed in memory by her indefatigable teacher, Annie Sullivan. Herrmann (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) returns Keller--blind, deaf and mute--to the...
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