Dorothy Gallagher

Dorothy Gallagher (born 1935) 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, and Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life a critical biography of writer and playwright Lilian Hellman.

Background Dorothy Gallagher was born in 1935 and raised in New York City.

Career 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.

Works

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).

Books Hannah's daughters: six generations of an American family, 1876-1976 (1976) All the right enemies: the life and murder of Carlo Tresca (1988) How I came into my inheritance: and other true stories (2001) Life stories aka Strangers in the house: life stories (2006) Mural at the Waverly Inn : a portrait of Greenwich Village bohemians / Edward Sorel (2008) Lillian Hellman: an imperious life (2014) If you're ever back this way (2020) Stories I forgot to tell you (2020)

Articles "My Father's House," The Atlantic Monthly (2023)