Tom Fudge : Just a few years ago, a young New York reporter was headed out the door to work when she noticed something strange about a dumpster near her apartment on Riverside Drive. It was full of old steamer trunks. Curiosity overcame the woman's desire to get to work on time. And she started pawing through those old trappings.
That's when Lily Koppel discovered a diary that had been kept by a teenage girl in the 1930s. It was bound in red leather, and the story it told was a fascinating chronicle of the times and the life of a precocious, well-to-do New York girl. Even better, Lily was able to track down the diary's author, who was in her 90s.
You can hear Lily Koppel talk about her new book: "The Red Leather Diary" at
San Diego Writers, Ink
on Wednesday, September 3, 7 p.m., and at
Warwick's Bookstore
in La Jolla on Thursday, September 4, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Guest
- Lily Koppel , New York Times journalist and author of "The Red Leather Diary."
