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Lillian Hellman was the most important American follower of Henrik Ibsen after Arthur Miller. Like Ibsen in his middle period, she wrote strong, well-made plays involving significant social issues.
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter famously blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52.
The Children's Hour is a 1934 American play by Lillian Hellman.It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. An angry student, Mary Tilford, runs away from the school and, to avoid being sent back, tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair.
Mar 29, 2000 · The second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author. In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer.
Lillian Hellman, one of the most important playwrights of the American theater, died of cardiac arrest yesterday at Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Hospital near her summer home. She was 77 years old and also lived in Manhattan.
Feb 24, 1977 · Lillian Hellman at home on Park Ave, April 16th, 1975. Dan Jancino/NY Daily News Archive/Getty L illian Hellman has been a literary institution for nearly 50 years–long enough, as she put it, to ...
The Little Foxes, drama in three acts by Lillian Hellman, a chronicle of greed and hate in a ruthless family in the American South, produced and published in 1939. The play is set in the South at the turn of the 20th century and concerns the manipulative Regina Giddens and her two brothers, Ben and
