Lillian Hellman

Broschiertes Buch

Conversations with Lillian Hellman

Beschreibung

This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her which appears in the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, down to her last interviews in the early 1980s. In all these interviews, Miss Hellman gives her own account of her eventful and exciting life, her evaluations and analyses of her plays and accounts of how and why they came to be written. Throughout, her views are expressed with the pungency, directness, honesty, and wit which made Lillian Hellman such a universally admired and respected figure. Hellman was seldom far from where the action was. The controversies in which she was involved are equaled only by the honors she received. This volume supplements her own memories by providing her own account of her life as she lived it¿rather than from the vantage of the late 1960s and 1970s when she composed the mem

Autor

Lillian Florence Hellman was an American author, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter who lived from June 20, 1905, to June 30, 1984. She was famous for her work on Broadway and for being a communist sympathizer and political activist. When she went before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) during the height of the anti-communist efforts from 1947 to 1952, she was put on a blacklist. Her income dropped because the American film business put a ban on her in the 1950s, even though she kept working on Broadway. Many people praised Hellman for not answering HUAC's questions, but some thought she belonged to the Communist Party even though she denied it. Hellman had many hits as a writer on Broadway, such as "The Children's Hour," "The Little Foxes" and "Another Part of the Forest," "Watch on the Rhine," "The Autumn Garden," and "Toys in the Attic." She turned her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a movie script, and Bette Davis played the lead role. Hellman was in a relationship with Dashiell Hammett, a writer and political leader who was also on a 10-year blacklist. The two never got married.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780878052943
• ISBN-10: 0878052941
• Artikelnr.: 20954106