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Sheilah Graham was a British-born, nationally syndicated American gossip columnist during Hollywood's "Golden Age".

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How Lily Shiel transformed herself into Sheilah Graham is a story my mother recounted in no less than eight published works of autobiography. She wrote about her three-and-a-half year romance with F. Scott Fitzgerald, which tragically ended when he died in her living room of a heart attack a few days before Christmas 1940. She wrote about her childhood—its poverty and her eight years, aged six to fourteen, in an East End of London orphanage. She wrote about her thirty-five years, stretching from the late '30s into the '70s, as one of “the unholy trio” of Hollywood columnists along with Hedda Hopper and Louella O. Parsons. She did not write about being Jewish.

September 15, 2004, the centennial of my mother's birth, coincided with this year's Rosh Hashanah. To note this is to link her with a heritage that for much of her life she discreetly concealed. She had emerged from her years in the orphanage with contradictory qualities of courage and secrecy, optimism and wariness that would guide her to the end of her life. Few of her colleagues or even her friends knew of her Jewish or

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Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman

June 27, 2019

The dust jacket states that BELOVED INFIDEL is an “autobiography, love story, and literary history.” It is all of that. I was unprepared for its scope and the high level of empathy it awakened in me.

BELOVED INFIDEL has often been mentioned as “the F. Scott Fitzgerald love affair” book, presenting a side of the famous writer that was seldom detailed. While that certainly occupies that last half of the book, it is a shame to so curtly dismiss that it is also the autobiography of Sheilah Graham, and that her story is no less involving.

The Reader learns that Sheilah Graham was mortified by the impoverished circumstances of her early years. Yet, this is an important aspect because it explains her desire to rise above her circumstances and claim a place as a person worthy of note of her own accord. I had assumed that I would be stumbling through the “non-Fitzgerald” first half, waiting for my reward of his presence in the second half. However, that was not the case. Graham’s story was fascinating throughout.

Her arrival in Hol

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Sheilah Graham

American gossip columnist (1904–1988)

Sheilah Graham (born Lily Shiel; 15 September 1904 – 17 November 1988) was a British-born, nationally syndicated American gossip columnist during Hollywood's "Golden Age". In her youth, she had been a showgirl and a freelance writer for Fleet Street in London. These early experiences would converge in her career in Hollywood, which spanned nearly four decades, as a successful columnist and author.^{[citation needed]}

Graham also was known for her relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald, a relationship she played a significant role in immortalizing through the autobiographical Beloved Infidel, a bestseller that was made into a film.

Early life

Graham was born Lily Shiel in Leeds, England, the youngest of Rebecca (Blashman) and Louis Shiel's eight children (two died). Her parents were UkrainianJews.^[3] Her father, a tailor who had fled the pogroms, died of tuberculosis on a trip to Berlin while she was still an infant. Her mother and the children moved to a basement flat in a Stepney Green sl