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Lillian Hellman

Lillian HellmanAKA Lillian Florence Hellman

Born: 20-Jun-1905
Birthplace: New Orleans, LA
Died: 30-Jun-1984
Location of death: Martha's Vineyard, MA
Cause of death: Heart Failure

Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright, Screenwriter

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Little Foxes

Father: Max Hellman
Mother: Julia Newhouse
Husband: Arthur Kober (playwright, m. 1925, div. 1932)
Boyfriend: Dashiell Hammett (for thirty years, until his death in 1961)

    University: New York University (attended 1922-25)
    University: BA, Columbia University (1925)
    University: MA, Tufts University (1940)
    Law School: LLD, Wheaton College

    National Book Award for Arts and Letters 1970 for An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
    Took the Fifth
    Hollywood Blacklist
    Risk Factors: Ophidiophobia

Author of books:
An Unfinished Woman (1969, memoir)
Pentimento (1973, memoir)
Scoundrel Time (1976, memoir)
Maybe (1980, memoir)

Wrote plays:
The Children's Hour (1934)
Dark Angel (1935)
These Three (1936)
Dead End (1937)
Little Foxes (1939)
Watch on the Rhine (1940)
The North Star (1943)
Another Part of the Forest (1946)
Toys in the Attic (1959)
My Mother, My Father, and Me (1963, adapted from How Much? by Burt Blechman)


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