Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman was born in 1905 into a Jewish family of German origin in New Orleans, and grew up between the boarding house run by two of her father's sisters and New York. She left university without a degree, read manuscripts for a publisher, then for a Hollywood studio. She wrote eight original plays and a few adaptations, then volumes of memoirs, one of which received the National Book Award. Already on the Hollywood blacklist since the late forties, she refused in 1952 to give names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. She died on Martha's Vineyard in 1984.

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• TheatreToys in the AtticLillian Hellman · 1960Literature