Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984) was an American playwright and left-wing activist, romantically involved for thirty years with pulp writer Dashiell Hammett. She was also a long-time friend of poet Dorothy Parker.

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To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is, to me, inhuman and indecent and dishonorable. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group. to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (1952)

List of works

  • The Children's Hour (1934)
  • These Three (1936)
  • Dark Angel (1935)
  • Dead End (1937)
  • The North Star (1943)
  • Little Foxes (1939)
  • Watch on the Rhine (1940)
  • Toys in the Attic (1959)
  • An Unfinished Woman (1969)
  • Pentimento (1973)
  • Scoundrel Time (1976)

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