NPR is running a series called THE LONG VIEW, stories about older Americans with interesting stories to share. Friday morning there was a piece about Lillian Ross. She has been a New Yorker writer since 1948 and has worked for all five editors since the magazine’s beginning.  Her work
has been compiled in Talk Stories (1966), Takes (1983) and Reporting (1964).  There is an excerpt from her profile of Ernest Hemingway on npr.org, as well as a link to the radio interview.

Ross’
profiles of famous people include rich details that bring the subject
alive on the page. Ernest Hemingway liked to talk in broken English.
During a conversation at dusk, Hollywood director John Huston
deliberately left off the lights as if arranging a shot in his own film
noir.

Ross began an article on Charlie Chaplin by describing him in the Plaza hotel, fretting over some soiled laundry.

"That’s
what he was," said Ross. "He was uneasy, uncomfortable in social
situations. He didn’t walk around with money. Using all these little
minute details really revealed the person."