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style="display:none">(1997-04-09)</span> (aged 80)<br />New York City, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Screenwriter, writer</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Helene Hanff</b> (April 15, 1916 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer born in <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>, Pennsylvania. She is best known as the author of the book <i><a href="/wiki/84,_Charing_Cross_Road" title="84, Charing Cross Road">84, Charing Cross Road</a></i>, which became the basis for a stage play,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> television play, and <a href="/wiki/84_Charing_Cross_Road_(film)" title="84 Charing Cross Road (film)">film</a> of the same name. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helene_Hanff&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She was born in 1916 to Miriam (born Levy) and Arthur Hanff. Her father had been a performer, but he settled down to sell shirts. However, it was said that he still liked the theatre, and he would swap shirts for a chance to get into a theater. Her family could not fund an expensive education, but Hanff won a scholarship to attend Temple University. She said that she was resigned to leaving after a year when the money was used up. She decided to teach herself, and she established a daily schedule of study. She had to abandon this when she realized that her family needed her to be a wage earner.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helene_Hanff&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Helene Hanff's literary career saw her move from unproduced playwright to writer of some of the earliest television dramas to becoming a noted writer and personality in her own right, as a quintessential New Yorker. She wrote a memoir in 1961 called <i>Underfoot in Show Business</i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that chronicled her struggles as an ambitious young playwright trying to make it in the world of New York theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. She worked in publicists' offices and spent summers on the "<a href="/wiki/Straw_hat_circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Straw hat circuit">straw hat circuit</a>" along the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a>, all the while writing one play after another. Her plays were admired by some of <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>'s leading producers, but somehow none of them ever made it to the stage, Hanff herself saying her plays specialized in "plotless charm." </p><p>When network television production geared up in New York City in the early 1950s, Hanff found a new career writing and editing scripts for many early television dramas. Chief among these was the <a href="/wiki/Dumont_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Dumont Network">Dumont Network</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Ellery_Queen" title="The Adventures of Ellery Queen">The Adventures of Ellery Queen</a></i>. At the same time, she continued to try to get one of her plays produced on Broadway and not just be "one of the 999 out of 1,000 who didn't become <a href="/wiki/Moss_Hart" title="Moss Hart">Moss Hart</a>." (In later editions of <i>Underfoot</i>, this reference was changed to <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a>.) The bulk of television production eventually moved to California, but Hanff chose to remain in New York. As her TV work dried up, she turned to writing for magazines and, eventually, to the books that made her reputation. In 1981, Hanff also appeared on the BBC's <a href="/wiki/Desert_Island_Discs" title="Desert Island Discs">Desert Island Discs</a> radio programme, in which she discussed her life and career along with her top choice of music which was <a href="/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach" title="Johann Sebastian Bach">Bach</a> and her choice of luxury was <a href="/wiki/Scrabble" title="Scrabble">Scrabble</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="84,_Charing_Cross_Road"><span id="84.2C_Charing_Cross_Road"></span><i>84, Charing Cross Road</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helene_Hanff&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 84, Charing Cross Road"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The epistolary work <i><a href="/wiki/84,_Charing_Cross_Road" title="84, Charing Cross Road">84, Charing Cross Road</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was first published in 1970. It chronicles Hanff's 20 years of correspondence with <a href="/wiki/Frank_Doel" title="Frank Doel">Frank Doel</a>, the chief buyer for <a href="/wiki/Marks_%26_Co" title="Marks & Co">Marks & Co</a>, a London bookshop. She depended on the bookshop—and on Doel—for the obscure classics and British literature titles that fueled her passion for self-education. She became intimately involved in the lives of the shop's staff, sending them food parcels during Britain's postwar shortages and sharing with them details of her life in Manhattan. </p><p>Due to financial difficulties and an aversion to travel, she put off visiting her English friends until too late; Doel died in December 1968 from <a href="/wiki/Peritonitis" title="Peritonitis">peritonitis</a> from a burst <a href="/wiki/Vermiform_appendix" class="mw-redirect" title="Vermiform appendix">appendix</a>, and the bookshop eventually closed. Hanff did finally visit <a href="/wiki/Charing_Cross_Road" title="Charing Cross Road">Charing Cross Road</a> and the empty but still-standing shop in the summer of 1971, a trip recorded in her 1973 book <i>The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street.</i><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Duchess</i>, Hanff describes her visits with friends and fans to various locations and places of literary and historical interest in London and Southern England. This trip was a highlight of her life – her modesty and sense of humor are evident as she talks about her love of London and the friends who were so devoted to her because of <i>84, Charing Cross Road</i>, including Frank Doel's wife Nora and his daughter Sheila, by his first wife Mary Price. </p><p>In the 1987 film adaptation <i><a href="/wiki/84_Charing_Cross_Road_(film)" title="84 Charing Cross Road (film)">84 Charing Cross Road</a></i>, Hanff was played by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Bancroft" title="Anne Bancroft">Anne Bancroft</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins" title="Anthony Hopkins">Anthony Hopkins</a> took the part of Frank Doel. <a href="/wiki/Anne_Jackson" title="Anne Jackson">Anne Jackson</a> had earlier played Hanff and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Finlay" title="Frank Finlay">Frank Finlay</a> had played Doel in a 1975 adaptation of the book for British television. <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Burstyn" title="Ellen Burstyn">Ellen Burstyn</a> recreated the role on Broadway<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1982 at the <a href="/wiki/Nederlander_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Nederlander Theater">Nederlander Theater</a> in New York City. <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Stritch" title="Elaine Stritch">Elaine Stritch</a> also played Helene Hanff in a television adaptation of <i>84, Charing Cross Road</i>. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/463456110_10160858612694163_7526797492370154146_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=6RrtZ4rzMYoQ7kNvgGc0qVR&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&_nc_gid=AtGH86pzxsB8NpVlPyjnvSK&oh=00_AYDXz6mCeO5y5UZUfLRJ5aTkaGmFR0SCRFreSbFIbGa08A&oe=6715E969">memorial plaque</a> stands at the <a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a> now in its location, reading "84 / CHARING CROSS ROAD / THE BOOKSELLERS / MARKS & CO. / WERE ON THIS SITE WHICH / BECAME WORLD RENOWNED / THROUGH THE BOOK BY / HELEN HANFF". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Additional_books">Additional books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helene_Hanff&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Additional books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hanff later put to good use her obsession with British scholar Sir <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Quiller-Couch" title="Arthur Quiller-Couch">Arthur Quiller-Couch</a> in a book called <i>Q's Legacy</i> (1985). The book serves as background to <i>84</i> and also recounts the aftermath of <i>Duchess</i>. Other books include <i>Apple of My Eye</i> (1977 and updated in 1988),<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an idiosyncratic guide to New York City; <i>Letter from New York</i> (1992), which reprinted the five-minute talks that she gave each month on the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Woman%27s_Hour" title="Woman's Hour">Woman's Hour</a></i> radio broadcasts between 1978 and 1984; and <i>Underfoot in Show Business</i> (1961, reissued 1989).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Underfoot in Show Business</i> was adapted as a stage play by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Leipart" title="Charles Leipart">Charles Leipart</a> and premiered in 2008 at the Devonshire Theatre in Eastbourne, UK, directed by <a href="/wiki/David_Giles_(director)" title="David Giles (director)">David Giles</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helene_Hanff&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hanff never married. In the 1987 <i>84 Charing Cross Road</i> movie, a photo of a US serviceman is shown in her apartment during World War II, a portrait at which she smiles fondly, suggesting to the viewer that Hanff remained unmarried owing to this naval officer's death. No such person is mentioned in her autobiographical <i>Underfoot</i>, and none of her writings suggests that she ever had any lasting or even short-term romantic relationship with any person. However, writer Al Senter claimed that she mentioned a long affair with an unnamed 'prominent American' during a conversation with one of the co-founders of Marks and Co,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and one obituary of her asserted that 'there were romances'.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helene_Hanff&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hanff died from <a href="/wiki/Diabetes" title="Diabetes">diabetes</a> six days before her 81st birthday in 1997 in New York City. The apartment building where she lived at 305 E. 72nd Street has been named "Charing Cross House" in her honor. A bronze plaque next to the front door commemorates her residence and authorship of the book. In London, a bronze plaque on the site of the original building commemorates the bookshop at <i>84, Charing Cross Road</i>. </p><p>Stephen R. Pastore published a biography, <i>Helene Hanff: A Life</i>, in 2011 based on interviews that he had conducted with her.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helene_Hanff&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0072593/">Play for Today: Season 6, Episode 484, Charing Cross Road</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120320045340/http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0072593/">Archived</a> March 20, 2012, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. <i>IMDb</i>. Retrieved December 25, 2014</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation cs2"><i>The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</i>, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F66166">10.1093/ref:odnb/66166</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/66166">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/66166</a><span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 18,</span> 2021</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F66166&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F66166&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelene+Hanff" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Citation" title="Template:Citation">citation</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Missing or empty <code class="cs1-code">|title=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#citation_missing_title" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Underfoot in Show Business. Harper and Row, 1962. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-316-34319-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-316-34319-6">0-316-34319-6</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mtfv">"BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Helene Hanff"</a>. <i>BBC</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 18,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BBC&rft.atitle=BBC+Radio+4+-+Desert+Island+Discs%2C+Helene+Hanff&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fprogrammes%2Fp009mtfv&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelene+Hanff" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">84 Charing Cross Road. André Deutsch, 1971. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-233-96330-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-233-96330-8">0-233-96330-8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street. J. B. 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McFarland. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-5309-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7864-5309-2"><bdi>978-0-7864-5309-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Broadway+Plays+and+Musicals%3A+Descriptions+and+Essential+Facts+of+More+Than+14%2C000+Shows+through+2007&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=2009-04-22&rft.isbn=978-0-7864-5309-2&rft.aulast=Hischak&rft.aufirst=Thomas+S.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGzeiySJZXF4C%26dq%3DElaine%2BStritch%2Balso%2Bplayed%2BHelene%2BHanff%26pg%3DPA127&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelene+Hanff" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHanff1989" class="citation book cs1">Hanff, Helene (February 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=y0YPAAAACAAJ"><i>Apple of My Eye</i></a>. Moyer Bell. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-918825-73-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-918825-73-5"><bdi>978-0-918825-73-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Apple+of+My+Eye&rft.pub=Moyer+Bell&rft.date=1989-02&rft.isbn=978-0-918825-73-5&rft.aulast=Hanff&rft.aufirst=Helene&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dy0YPAAAACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelene+Hanff" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHanff2015" class="citation book cs1">Hanff, Helene (November 6, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=hcxvCwAAQBAJ&q=Helene+Hanff"><i>Underfoot In Show Business</i></a>. Pickle Partners Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-78625-618-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-78625-618-8"><bdi>978-1-78625-618-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Underfoot+In+Show+Business&rft.pub=Pickle+Partners+Publishing&rft.date=2015-11-06&rft.isbn=978-1-78625-618-8&rft.aulast=Hanff&rft.aufirst=Helene&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DhcxvCwAAQBAJ%26q%3DHelene%2BHanff&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelene+Hanff" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSenter,_Al2015" class="citation book cs1">Senter, Al (2015). <i><span></span>'Yours Faithfully', essay in '84 Charing Cross Road Programme'<span></span></i>. The Salisbury Playhouse.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%27Yours+Faithfully%27%2C+essay+in+%2784+Charing+Cross+Road+Programme%27&rft.pub=The+Salisbury+Playhouse&rft.date=2015&rft.au=Senter%2C+Al&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelene+Hanff" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoose-Evans,_James1997" class="citation web cs1">Roose-Evans, James (April 14, 1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-helene-hanff-1267169.html">"Obituary: Helene Hanff"</a>. The Independent newspaper, UK.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Obituary%3A+Helene+Hanff&rft.pub=The+Independent+newspaper%2C+UK&rft.date=1997-04-14&rft.au=Roose-Evans%2C+James&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpeople%2Fobituary-helene-hanff-1267169.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelene+Hanff" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Helene Hanff: A Life. Stephen R. 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