Biography: Lee Israel

[Lee Israel]

Lee Israel is the author of three biographies, all chosen by either Book-of-the-Month or Literary Guild: Miss Tallulah Bankhead, Kilgallen (a New York Times best-seller), and Estee Lauder: Beyond the Magic (not her finest moment). She has contributed to sundry national magazines, specializing in personality profiles and satire. Lee lives in New York City with two cats, Tennessee and Tallulah; the latter hides under the bed when any of her fabulous friends visit. When the friends are not so fabulous, Lee joins Tallulah under the bed. Her interest in the Kennedy assassination began when she started investigating the murder of Dorothy Kilgallen.