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- The answer to this question is to be found in Miss Hellman’s series of memoirs: An Unfinished Woman (1969), Pentimento (1973), Scoundrel Time (1976), Three (an annotated compendium of the earlier memoirs, 1979), and Maybe (1980). The best known of these is undoubtedly Pentimento, which contains a portrait, “Julia,” about a childhood friend.
www.commentary.org/articles/samuel-mccracken/julia-other-fictions-by-lillian-hellman/“Julia” & Other Fictions by Lillian Hellman – Commentary Magazine
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Hellman published her first volume of memoirs that touched upon her political, artistic, and social life, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir, in 1969, for which she received the U.S. National Book Award in category Arts and Letters, which was an award category from 1964 to 1976.
Hellman’s most notorious lie was that she had risked her own life by passing material to “Julia,” her supposed anti-fascist friend in pre-war Austria depicted in her memoir Pentimento (1973).
Following a short biographical chapter, provides an overview of Hellman’s plays and first three memoirs, focusing on Hellman’s concern with moral questions. Its usefulness has been superseded by subsequent volumes.
Jun 1, 2012 · Of the making of books about Lillian Hellman, there is no end. Since her death in 1984, she has been the subject of three full-scale biographies, a book-length memoir by one of her lovers, and a 350-page portrait of her long-term relationship with the mystery novelist and screenwriter Dashiell Hammett.
Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world — and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own.
Jun 7, 1999 · An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir. Paperback – June 7 1999. This National Book Award winner is a brilliant and uncompromising memoir by one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Caustic, genius, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth."
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