Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
On the Town
By Daniel Mendelsohn
The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman
edited by Stephen Pascal
Knopf, 654 pp., $37.50
At the beginning of a 1953 New York Times review of a memoir by Charles Darwin's granddaughter, Leo Lerman—identified as 'contributing editor of Mademoiselle,' a description that hardly did justice to the thirty-nine-year-old's already significant social and cultural influence in New York City during the midcentury—expatiated on the pleasures of reading other people's autobiographies. 'The most delightful thing about reading a book of recollections,' he wrote,
Review, 4344 words
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