Hellman, Lillian
Hellman, Lillian( 1905–84),New York dramatist whose plays include The Children's Hour (1934), a tragedy of a malicious child accusing the owners of her boarding school of lesbianism; Days To Come (1936), about a strike; The Little Foxes (1939), about a reactionary Southern family's struggle to retain wealth and power despite internal feuds and the encroachments of modern society; Watch on the Rhine (1941), about an anti-Nazi in the U.S., with his American wife, who is forced to murder to fight against Hitlerism; The Searching Wind (1944), about the family of a former U.S. ambassador in wartime Washington and prewar Europe; Another Part of the Forest (1946); The Autumn Garden (1951), about middleaged people trying to recapture a sense of youth; and Toys in the Attic (1960), set in New Orleans and treating the theme of miscegenation. My Mother, My Father and Me (1963) is an...
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