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Oct 10, 2016 · One night in the spring of 1955, the actress Elaine Dundy was leaving a party in New York when a sharp-nosed, floppy-haired young man came toward her and, without context or introduction,...
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Oct 17, 2016 · One night in the spring of 1955, the actress Elaine Dundy was leaving a party in New York when a sharp-nosed, floppy-haired young man came toward her and, without context or introduction, asked, “Do you know Henry Green?” Dundy replied that she did. The young man told her his name—she instantly forgot it.
Jim McDermott's portrait of Dundy. Elaine Rita Dundy (née Brimberg; August 1, 1921 – May 1, 2008) was an American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress and playwright.
"Poor little Mrs Tynan was – at that very moment – on the town with Henry Green. The great English novelist," insisted Dundy. But Coward's quip was ironic.
Oct 18, 2001 · One can only be grateful that Elaine Dundy never compared notes with—or indeed rudely awakened—Mrs. Henry Green, the famous Dig, whose forbearance when it came to Henry’s enheartening nights in the pub might have contributed to a blazing new-style memoir all of her own.
“The Dud Avocado” is a novel written by Elaine Dundy that follows the story of Sally Jay Gorce, a young American woman who moves to Paris in the late 1950s to experience the city’s vibrant culture.
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May 21, 2018 · Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado. First published 1958. Virago Modern Classics 2011. When I think of Paris in 1958 I picture smoky Left Bank cafés filled with proto-beatnik students from the Sorbonne earnestly discussing Sartre and Camus, or the Algerian War or communism.
