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Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life
Dorothy Gallagher
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Description for Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life
Hardback. A fresh look at Hellman's restless life, her extraordinary plays, and her autobiographical myths Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustration. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.
Glamorous, talented, audacious-Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written The Children's Hour, the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of America's first rank of dramatists, a position she maintained for more than twenty-five years. Apart from her literary accomplishments-eight original plays and three volumes of memoirs-Hellman lived a rich life filled with notable friendships, controversial political activity, travel, and love affairs, most importantly with Dashiell Hammett. But by the time she died, the truth about her life and works had been called into ... Read more
Glamorous, talented, audacious-Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written The Children's Hour, the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of America's first rank of dramatists, a position she maintained for more than twenty-five years. Apart from her literary accomplishments-eight original plays and three volumes of memoirs-Hellman lived a rich life filled with notable friendships, controversial political activity, travel, and love affairs, most importantly with Dashiell Hammett. But by the time she died, the truth about her life and works had been called into ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Jewish Lives
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300164978
SKU
V9780300164978
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About Dorothy Gallagher
Dorothy Gallagher is the author of Hannah's Daughters and All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca, and two volumes of memoirs. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Grand Street. She lives in New York City.
Reviews for Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life
Gallagher has shown herself to be an incisive, sharp-edged, darkly humorous writer, and these qualities help engage readers in a study of Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) that might otherwise seem mean-spirited. The author has no personal ax to grind against her subject, as do many of the sources she quotes, but her portrait is all the more devastating since it seems ... Read more