Lillian+Hellman

Lillian Hellman


Lillian Florence Hellman

Early life
Lillian Florence “Lily” Hellman (June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, linked throughout her life with manyleft-wing causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery and crime writer Dashiell Hammett (and was the inspiration for his character Nora Charles), and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker.

Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana into a Jewish family (though her mother and most of her family had converted to Christianity, Hellman from a young age attended both St. Louis Cathedral and Temple Beth Israel). During most of her childhood she spent half of each year in New Orleans, in a boarding home run by her aunts, and the other half in New York City.

Death and Legacy Hellman died on June 30, 1984 at age 79 from natural causes on Martha's Vineyard. She was still in litigation with Mary McCarthy, and the suit was dropped by Hellman's executors.[11][12] Hellman is a main character in the play Cakewalk by Peter Feibleman, which is about Hellman's relationship with a younger novelist. Hellman did have a long relationship with Feibleman, and the other main character in the play is somewhat based on him. Actress Elaine Stritch portrays Hellman in the audiobook version of the play. Hellman appears in the fifteenth episode of the nineteenth season of //The Simpsons//, in Lisa's hallucination, urging her to take up smoking. The same episode also jokingly and incorrectly identified Hellman as the creator of Hellman's Mayonnaise. Hellman is also the subject of the Chuck Palahniu book Tell-All. The novel reinvents her as a "larger than life Super Hero" and follows her incredible life and exploits, as she wrote about them in her memoir "An Unfinished Woman". Hellman is also the subject of the Rosemary Mahoney book A Likely Story. The novel describes a two month period Mahoney spent as live-in help for Hellman during the summer before her senior year of high school. Hellman is mentioned in a sexual fantasy of Josh Kornbluth in the movie Haiku Tunnel. Hellman's The Children's Hour is to be staged at The Comedy Theatre, London in 2011 starring, Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss, directed by Ian Rickson.

List of Works:

 * //The Children's Hour// (1934)
 * //These Three// (1936)
 * //The Dark Angel// (1935)[[image:autumn-garden-book.jpg align="right" caption="The Autumn Garden published in 1951"]]
 * //Days To Come// (1936)
 * //Dead End// (1937)
 * //The North Star// (1943)
 * //The Little Foxes// (1939 play)
 * //Watch on the Rhine// (1940)
 * //The Little Foxes// (1941 screenplay)
 * //Another Part of the Forest// (1946)
 * //The Autumn Garden// (1951)
 * //Candide// (1957)
 * //The Big Knockover// (preface) (1963)
 * //Toys in the Attic// (1959)
 * //An Unfinished Woman// (1969) (autobiographical)
 * //Pentimento// (1973) (autobiographical)
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">//Scoundrel Time// (1976)
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">//Julia// (1977) made into a film starring Jane Fonda.
 * <span style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding: 0px;">//Maybe: A Story// (1982

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