Brody, Lora

GROWING UP ON THE CHOCOLATE DIET, A MEMOIR WITH RECIPES [ALS]

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xiv, 251 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. White spine with blue titling. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar cover, price uncut "$16.95", has light general shelf wear. Boards have light bumping to spine ends and corners. Textblock has light wear to edges. Includes a hand-written letter addressed to Susan Sheehan and signed by Lora Brody. Shelved in Room F.

1413790

Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $75

NOTES

Second Story Books is honored to offer this item from the personal collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan. Neil Sheehan (1936–2021) and Susan Sheehan (1937-2026) were a distinguished husband-and-wife team whose careers helped define American literary journalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The New York Times, is best known for his role in bringing the Pentagon Papers to public attention and for his landmark book "A Bright Shining Lie", while Susan Sheehan built a parallel reputation as a leading voice at The New Yorker, crafting deeply reported narrative nonfiction on subjects ranging from mental health to social institutions, earning her own Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Their longstanding ties to major publications, particularly The New Yorker, placed them at the center of an influential cultural and intellectual network, and the books from their library carry added provenance through this close connection to the magazine’s editorial and artistic community.