Lyn Tornabene papers

Lyn Tornabene was born October 13, 1930, in Williamsport, PA. In 1952, she graduated with a B.A. in English from Penn State and soon thereafter moved to Manhattan where she soon worked in the editorial departments of Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and Cosmopolitan. In 1960, she published her first article with by-lined articles appearing regularly in Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Woman's Day, Family Circle, and Good Housekeeping. She authored a popular column for Cosmopolitan which ran between the 1960s – 1970s titled "Lunch Date" as well as a regularly published column for McCall's in the 1960s titled "Walking With". Her articles primarily centered on social commentaries and celebrity profiles including interviews with top celebrities from the period such as Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Gene Kelly, Cher, Warren Beatty, Bruce Willis, Oprah Winfrey, and many others.

She was the author of several books including I Passed as a Teenager (1966), What's a Jewish Girl? (1967), and Long Live the King: A Biography of Clark Gable (1977). The latter was a major Literary Guild selection and was condensed by Reader's Digest. Throughout her career, she gave many talks on interviewing, writing, editing, and dealing with New York Agents and appeared on major television shows including The Tonight Show Starring Before her passing in 2017, she resided in Tucson and contributed to the advancement of the arts.