Lily Koppel

Lily Koppel writes for The New York Times and other publications. Koppel is the author of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal, published by HarperCollins, based on her New York Times "City" section cover story 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 90.Koppel recovered the diary from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of her building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Koppel got her start in journalism at The New York Times contributing reporting to the paper's Boldface Names celebrity column.

Koppel lives in New York City.

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