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The suit ended with Hellman’s death, before reaching trial. McCarthy died five years later, in 1989.” The question is, if Lillian Hellman was such a pain in the butt, why is she still being written ...

A fierce playwright, a fiery socialist and a pioneering feminist, Lillian Hellman lived unapologetically. But today she's remembered as a fabulist... Lillian Hellman: A 'Difficult,' Vilified Woman ...

It’s an engaging, readable, gossipy, bitchy hatchet job. If Lillian Hellman were alive, and if it were not about her, she would probably love it. Hellman died in Martha’s Vineyard in 1984. She was ...

Unafraid to question Hellman’s idealized memoirs, Gallagher (Hannah’s Daughters) meets the “unflaggingly famous” dramatist head on in this pithy biography. Gallagher scrutinizes the “only woman ...

I don’t know that I have ever read this good a rescue job. Columbia historian Alice Kessler-Harris’s biography of dramatist and screenwriter Lillian Hellman made me feel like a stupid cliché: just ...

The adjective "difficult" in the title of Alice Kessler-Harris' biography of Lillian Hellman is apt but too kind. Implicitly at least, Kessler-Harris is attempting a partial rehabilitation of ...

Could it have been that Lillian Hellman, grande bitch, brilliant playwright, political agitator, sexy fashion icon (according to Walter Matthau, “she kind of saw herself as the Catherine Deneuve of ...

The 1970s talk-show host stars in a new play based on the lawsuit between authors Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy. By Jordan Riefe Hellman v McCarthy Production Still - H 2015 “If I had just said is ...

The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.” By Elisabeth Vincentelli The first coronavirus shutdown caught ...