![]() ![]() Ross’s particular skill was to charm her subjects into revealing their most unscripted, id-like selves, as Hemingway memorably did during a three-day tour of New York City with Ms. ![]() Warner, president of Warner Brothers, in a passage from “Lassie”: “ ‘Don’t worry!’ he roars, slapping the backs of the lesser men around him. Ross were covering the 2016 presidential campaign. Reading “ Come in, Lassie!,” her rollicking sketch of a Hollywood under siege from the Committee on Un-American Activities, today, you can’t help but wish Ms. By midcentury, she had made journalistic history by pioneering the kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work like Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.” John Huston called her “Kid,” and Ernest Hemingway, simply, “Daughter.” A dogged young reporter with an elfin face and a cap of dark curls, Lillian Ross started working at The New Yorker in 1945, welcomed into the void left by the male reporters and editors who had gone off to serve in World War II, though she was paid far less. ![]() James Thurber nicknamed her “the girl with the built-in tape recorder,” for her uncanny ear for dialogue. ![]()
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