Lüchow's and fiction books, including "La Bonne Table" (1964) by Ludwig Bemelmans, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" (1975) by Judith Rossner, "The Anatolian" (1982) by Elia Kazan, "My Life as Author and Editor" (1993, posthumous) by H. L. Mencken, "Sidewalk Critic" (1998, posthumous) by Lewis Mumford, and "The Stories of John Cheever" (2011) by John Cheever. Mencken wrote, "Nathan and I saw him for the last time at lunch at Lüchow's in June 1920. He looked somewhat thin and pasty, but we ascribed his appearance, not to illness, but to the fact that he was drinking tea. Tea in Lüchow's, the citadel
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein public, and for unknown reasons decided to attribute authorship to Mary Shelley, thus helping to begin a "hoax" that has persisted up to the present. Lauritsen maintains that revisions to "Frankenstein" made in 1823 and 1831 weakened the work, and that while it was ostensibly Mary Shelley who revised "Frankenstein" into its 1831 form, it may primarily have been revised by the political philosopher William Godwin. Lauritsen argues that handwriting alone cannot be used to determine the actual author of "Frankenstein". The drafts and manuscripts are incomplete and in the final stages. Moreover, portions of the novel were dictated by