Additional Books
Hanff later put her obsession with British scholar Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch to use in a book called Q's Legacy (1985). Other books include "The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street" (1973), Apple of My Eye (1977 and updated in 1988), an idiosyncratic guide to New York City, and Letter from New York (1992), which reprinted the five-minute talks she gave each month on the BBC's Woman's Hour radio broadcasts between 1978 and 1984, and "Underfoot in Show Business" (1989). "Underfoot in Show Business" was adapted as a stage play by Charles Leipart and premiered in 2008 at the Devonshire Theatre in Eastbourne, UK, directed by David Giles.
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