Dorothy Gallagher (born 1935)[citation needed] is an American memoirist and biographer known for her two biographies All the Right Enemies, her biography on Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca and a 1988 New York Times Notable Book of the Year,[1] and Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life[2] a critical biography of writer and playwright Lilian Hellman.
Dorothy Gallagher was born in 1935 and raised in New York City.
Gallagher started out as a features editor for Redbook Magazine before becoming a freelance writer whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and Grand Street.
[3] Gallgher is also known for her memoirs Hannah's Daughters, How I Came into My Inheritance, Strangers in the House, and Stories I Forgot to Tell You (which memorializes her marriage to Ben Sonnenberg).
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