What Lisa Knew: The Truth and Lies of the Steinberg Case

About this book

"She was found in darkness - the bruised comatose first-grader who would never wake up to tell anyone which of the two adults in the small filthy Greenwich Village apartment had beaten her." On January 30 1989 Joel Steinberg was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter after a twelve-week nationally televised trial in which his former lover Hedda Nussbaum was the star prosecution witness. In this book Joyce Johnson examines the mysteries still surrounding Lisa Steinbergs death and also addresses the painful question of how she lived in an account of what is known about her last days and hours when no one acted to save her.