She, Lillian Ross, was for more than half a century one of the magazine's most prolific and iconic journalists New Yorker, author of several pieces that have gone down in the history of modern journalism, for example a profile she wrote in 1950 about the ebullient but somewhat caricature-like Ernest Hemingway. He, William Shawn, was not only the editor-in-chief for more than forty years of the New Yorker He was not only the man who transformed the legendary weekly into the world's most prestigious publication, but he was also the man who transformed the legendary weekly into the world's most prestigious publication, all thanks to a perfectly bold, rigorous, and balanced blend of extensive and in-depth journalism, literature, humor, and meticulous attention to every detail of journalistic work, from fact-checking to keystrokes. Although he was married with children and never neglected his family, Shawn and Ross fell in love and, for four decades, shared their lives, never hiding from anyone, not even his wife and children. Here, but not quite These are the memoirs that Ross wrote about that unique and memorable love story.