![]() ![]() She tried to write it but always destroyed her attempts. Her account of this relationship was, he said, even more amusing and touching that her letters to Charing Cross Road. "She had a relationship with a very famous American, whom she had to share with two other ladies, and she was never sure whether she was the senior or the junior." Mr Marks, a wartime code-master with the Special Operations Executive, who became a close friend of Miss Hanff, said: "She had something better than 84 Charing Cross Road to write, but she was afraid of doing it. Leo Marks, the son of the owner of the antiquarian bookshop to whom she wrote, said she had never written what he believed would have been an even better book, about her love affair with a famous American. ![]() ![]() HELENE HANFF, the author of 84 Charing Cross Road, the correspondence between her and the manager of a bookshop in the Fifties, has died aged 79 in a nursing home in New York, keeping a secret to the last. In the successful film of 84 Charing Cross Road Screen image: Anne Bancroft playing the Hanff character From the Daily Telegraph, Friday 11th April, 1997 ![]()
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