Volume 45, Number 3 · February 19, 1998
The Afterlife of Anne Frank
By Ian Buruma
The Diary of Anne Frank
a play by Frances Goodrich, by Albert Hackett, adapted by Wendy Kesselman, directed by James Lapine. at the Music Box Theater, New York City
An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary
by Lawrence Graver
University of California Press, 254 pp., $15.95 (paper)
The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary
by Ralph Melnick
Yale University Press, 268 pp., $30.00
Anne Frank was an ambitious young woman, and most of her wishes came true. She wanted to be a famous writer, and 'to go on living even after my death!'[1] Few writers are as famous as she. The Diary of Anne Frank continues to be read by millions of people in dozens of languages. The movie version was a global success. The 'award-winning' play, based on the diary, was a smash hit on Broadway, as well as pretty much everywhere else, and its current revival is playing to full houses. As is usually the case with fame of this scale, the quality of the original work does not fully explain the legendary status of its author.
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