Laura Z: A Life by Laura Z. Hobson

Laura Z:  A Life by Laura Z. Hobson is a 410-page hardcover published in 1983 by Arbor House.  The condition is very good. Book Summary Spanning some eight decades, here is the remarkable and remarkably candid autobiography of an extraordinary woman, both with--and very much a part of--the twentieth century. Laura Z. (for Zametkin) Hobson...from her childhood as the daughter of the first editor of the Jewish Daily Forward to a stint of reporting on the New York Post; from marriage to and divorce from Book publisher Thayer Hobson to director of promotion of Time and a position of perhaps the leading magazine promotion writer in the country; from the extraordinary adoption of one son and the birth of another--both as a single parent--to sudden international fame following publication of the classic novel about antisemitism--Gentleman's Agreement, and along the way very personal memories of such as Henry R. Luce, Clare Booth Luce, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Thompson, PM newspaper founder Ral