From the New York Times:
A few years ago, Hilary Knight, the illustrator best known for “Eloise,” was talking with a builder he knows in East Hampton. The guy had just read a profile in New York Magazine of Lena Dunham, which mentioned she had an Eloise tattoo. “I was unaware of Lena Dunham,” Mr. Knight, 88, said recently.
He called up the publicity department at Simon & Schuster and asked them to send Ms. Dunham some signed “Eloise” books. She wrote back, “You are the very fiber of my being.”
Thus launched the friendship between the two, which led to a 35-minute documentary, “It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise,” which aired recently on HBO.
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