A Little Holiday
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Ben Hecht’s Cause, 23 September 2021
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
by Adina Hoffman.
Yale, 245 pp., £10.99, April 2020,978 0 300 25181 4 Show More
by Adina Hoffman.
Yale, 245 pp., £10.99, April 2020,
“... a writer to tell the truth when a concoction could put life in his prose’. In her new biography, Adina Hoffman claims he was ‘as voracious for words as he was for girls – which was saying a very great deal’. In 1915, he married Marie Armstrong, whom he described as the first ‘good woman’ he had known, though he soon left her and their young ... ”
