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Hellman is the central character in Peter Feibleman's 1993 play Cakewalk, which depicts his relationship with Hellman, based in turn on Feibleman's 1988 memoir of their relationship, Lilly, which described "his tumultuous time as her lover, caretaker, writing partner and principal heir."
Jun 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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Dependent upon Lillian Hellman's writing income at the close of his life after drinking and wenching himself into literary and sexual impotence, Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon, has survived as an artist while she is remembered as a self-loathing liar.
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It's no secret that Dashiell Hammett based the character Nora Charles (from "The Thin Man" series) on Lillian Hellman, and reading her memoir is like getting to see a deeper, more complicated side to the witty, tough-talking lady of Hammett's stories.
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Plot Summary. Playwright Lillian Hellman cautions that her memoir, An Unfinished Woman (1969), is a series of recollections, as opposed to a listing of historical facts – readers are warned not to expected strictly accurate dates or even locations.
Sep 29, 2007 · And the story of how Lillian smuggled $50,000 to Julia, money that would save people from the Nazis, was told in the best-selling memoir of that Lillian: Lillian Hellman. It became an...
Feb 24, 1977 · A woman of fierce temper and fiercer loyalties (the most remarkable thing about her stormy 30-year relationship with writer Dashiell Hammett seems to be that it endured), she dared to lecture Joe...
