Born Philadelphia. Wrote 84 Charing Cross Road in 1970. Later made into a play and film.
Died New York City. The apartment building where she lived at 305 E. 72nd Street has been named "Charing Cross House" and a plaque erected.
Born Philadelphia. Wrote 84 Charing Cross Road in 1970. Later made into a play and film.
Died New York City. The apartment building where she lived at 305 E. 72nd Street has been named "Charing Cross House" and a plaque erected.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Helene Hanff
84 Charing Cross Road. The booksellers Marks & Co. were on this site whi...
Writer and journalist. James Hall started the campaign to commemorate the first recording studio after he chanced upon it while researching his novel, The Industry Of Human Happiness, set in the ea...
Author, poet, artist and art critic. Born at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. His first prose work was published in 1834 when he was only 15. He was a friend of Turner and became his executor. I...
Thriller writer. Born at the site of the plaque as René Lodge Brabazon Raymond. Under various pseudonyms, he wrote ninety novels, fifty of which were made into films. Died in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Sw...
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in London and to provide accomodation to pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, in particular Chaucer's pilgrims, who set off...
Educationalist and writer. Born Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to Britain in 1948 to study at Oxford. There she met Tony Benn, who became her husband. An advocate of comprehensive education, she co-fou...
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