In her earliest memories we see, for example, a coal-powered railroad advertising the cleanliness of their service. In portraying Lillian’s life, Rooney shows us markers for the times. Margaret Fishback - from the Poetry Foundation She presented a somewhat cynical view of romance, and had to eat a bit of crow when she succumbed to love and marriage in her 30s, taking it so far as to having a child. The poems that Kathleen Rooney uses in the book as Boxfish’s are Fishback’s. She penned several books of verse that earned her a reputation beyond her ad work. Like Margaret, Lillian hails from Washington DC, arriving in 1900, came to NYC in her 20s, and became one of the premier ad writers in the country. Lillian Boxfish, the character, is based on a real person, Margaret Fishback, whose career and life paths Lillian mimics. In stopping at various Manhattan spots over the course of the night, she encounters prompts to memory that span her lifetime, and a major chunk of the 20th century. On New Year’s Eve 1984, 84 year old Lillian Boxfish sets out from her Murray Hill apartment on a considerable walk.
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