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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions. - Lillian Hellman Attribution: Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), U.S. playwright. Letter, May 19, 1952, to John S. Wood, Chairman of the House un-American Activities Committee. Quoted in Nation (New York, May 31, 1952). Refusing to testify against colleagues accused of Communist affiliations.

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Lillian Hellman

Titles by Lillian Hellman:

• The Children's Hour
• The Little Foxes
• Watch on the Rhine

Salem on History:

• Lillian Hellman

Critical Companions:

• Hellman, Lillian (Feminism)

American Decades:

• Hellman, Lillian 1906-1984 (1940's The Arts)

Encyclopedia:

• Hellman, Lillian (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Hellman, Lillian (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Lillian Hellman (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Lillian Hellman (Critical Survey of Drama)
• Lillian Hellman (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Lillian Hellman (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Lillian Hellman (Identities and Issues in Literature)

Literary Criticism:

• Hellman, Lillian (Vol. 18) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hellman, Lillian (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hellman, Lillian (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hellman, Lillian (Vol. 8) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hellman, Lillian (Vol. 14) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hellman, Lillian (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Lillian Hellman is born
• Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour is produced
• Lillian Hellman's drama The Little Foxes is produced
• Lillian Hellman publishes Scoundrel Time
• Lillian Hellman dies