Lillian Hellman (1905–1984)
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About the Author
Playwright Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans on June 20, in 1905. After studying at New York and Columbia Universities, Hellman worked in publishing and as a book reviewer and play-reader. In 1934, Hellman had her first success as a playwright with The Children's Hour. In the play, Hellman mostrar mais mixed social, political, and moral issues along with more personal ones. Among some of Hellman's other successful plays are The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, The Searching Wind, and Toys in the Attic. Hellman was also a screenwriter who wrote many film scripts and adapted the works of other authors for film and the stage. Hellman's memoirs include An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento. For more than 30 years Hellman had a relationship with "hard-boiled" detective writer Dashiell Hammett. She lived with him until his death in 1961, and shared his commitment to radical political causes. Hellman's appearance before Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 resulted in her being blacklisted in Hollywood. Her book, Scoundrel Time, explores her experiences during the McCarthy era. Nearly blind and confined to a wheelchair, Lillian Hellman died of cardiac arrest in 1984. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Lillian Hellman uncredited foto by Nutrias
Séries
Obras por Lillian Hellman
Pentimento e il tempo dei furfanti 11 exemplares
Three American Plays 3 exemplares
Plays 2 exemplares
Candide a Comic Operetta Based on Voltai 2 exemplares
Four Modern American Plays 2 exemplares
The Little Foxes [Souvenir Program] 1 exemplar
Lillian Hellman Plays 1 exemplar
Die Zeit der Schurken. 1 exemplar
Toys In The Attic (Playbill) [Vol 4 No 43] 1 exemplar
Hellman, Lillian Archive 1 exemplar
Skakavci 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States (1999) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Double Feature: Directed by William Wyler [1986 American Masters TV episode] / The Love Trap [1929 film] [DVD] (1929) — Actor — 3 exemplares
Critics' Choice: New York Drama Critics' Circle Prize Plays, 1935-1955 (1945) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Hellman, Lillian
- Nome legal
- Hellman, Lillian Florence
- Data de nascimento
- 1905-06-20
- Data de falecimento
- 1984-06-30
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
- Causa da morte
- cardiac arrest
- Locais de residência
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
New York, New York, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- New York University
Columbia University - Ocupações
- playwright
screenwriter
memoirist - Relações
- Hammett, Dashiell (partner)
- Organizações
- League of American Writers
Screen Writers Guild - Prémios e menções honrosas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1962)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1960)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1946)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Lillian Hellman was a popular playwright whose most successful works were created between the 1930s and the 1960s. She also published several bestselling volumes of memoirs. Several of her plays were made into films. Ms. Hellman was equally famous for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, and for her long romantic relationship with Dashiell Hammett.
She also conducted a lengthy feud with writer Mary McCarthy.
Membros
Críticas
Six Plays by Lillian Hellman por Lillian Hellman
#483 in our old book database. Not rated.
The past haunts the couples and former couples of this small Southern town. Like real life, everyone is unlikable, but unlike real life everyone confronts their self delusions.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 49
- Also by
- 24
- Membros
- 3,934
- Popularidade
- #6,427
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 58
- ISBN
- 151
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 13
