Lillian Hellman has written 13 shows including The Children's Hour (Playwright), Days to Come (Playwright), The Little Foxes (Playwright), Watch on the Rhine (Playwright), The Searching Wind ...

A fierce playwright, a fiery socialist and a pioneering feminist, Lillian Hellman lived unapologetically. But today she's remembered as a fabulist and a rabble-rouser — if she's remembered at all. A ...

I don’t know that I have ever read this good a rescue job. Columbia historian Alice Kessler-Harris’s biography of dramatist and screenwriter Lillian Hellman made me feel like a stupid cliché: just ...

In this friendly if far from uncritical biography, Alice Kessler-Harris focuses on Lillian Hellman as a woman both of her time and ahead of her time. She was “a woman among men” who “became the ...

The adjective "difficult" in the title of Alice Kessler-Harris' biography of Lillian Hellman is apt but too kind. Implicitly at least, Kessler-Harris is attempting a partial rehabilitation of ...

Lillian Hellman enjoyed a rich life of notable friendships, controversial political activity and love affairs. “Hellman was … talented, ambitious, restless, audacious, highly sexual, funny, generous, ...

A fierce playwright, a fiery socialist and a pioneering feminist, Lillian Hellman lived unapologetically. But today she's remembered as a fabulist... Lillian Hellman: A 'Difficult,' Vilified Woman ...

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist views and ...