Lily Koppel (born 1981) is a writer living in New York City. She is known for her books The Red Leather Diary (2008) and The Astronaut Wives Club (2013).
Lily Koppel
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Barnard College |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Notable works | The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story, The Red Leather Diary |
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Koppel writes for The New York Times and other publications. She graduated from Barnard College in 2003 with a degree in English Literature and creative writing. Koppel began contributing by reporting to The New York Times Boldface Names celebrity column in 2003.[1]
She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America and National Public Radio.
Koppel's book The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal was published by HarperCollins on April 1, 2008. The book is about her discovery of a young woman's diary, kept in New York in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at age 90. The diary was recovered from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of Koppel's apartment building on the Upper West SideofManhattan. The non-fiction book is based on Koppel's New York Times City section cover story.[2]
Her second book, The Astronaut Wives Club, was published by Grand Central Publishing on June 11, 2013.[3] The book served as the basis for the ABC short-run TV series The Astronaut Wives Club, which premiered in June 2015.[4]