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Lillian Hellman

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"Pentimento" by Lillian Hellman is collection of the author's recollections of people who impacted her life and who left lasting marks on her memory. Before delving into the past, Hellman explains what she was attempting to accomplish with her book and why she named it "Pentimento." The author describes what the process known as "Pentimento" is. An artist may decide that he does not like a painting he is working on...

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Lillian Hellman Biographies (4)

Lillian Florence Hellman

550 words, approx. 2 pages

Lillian Florence Hellman (1906-1984), American playwright, wrote a series of powerful, realistic plays that made her one of America's major dramatists. She explored highly controversial themes, with m... Read more

Lillian (Florence) Hellman

13,698 words, approx. 46 pages

Like many other playwrights of the 1930s, Lillian Hellman urged a social conscience on the theatre. By her own admission, she is a moralist who cannot avoid the final "summing up," with the sometimes ... Read more

Lillian (Florence) Hellman

12,395 words, approx. 42 pages

At Lillian Hellman's funeral, John Hersey, referring to the title of Hellman's 1969 volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, declared that Hellman was at last a finished woman. Just as some of her play... Read more

Lillian Hellman

4,528 words, approx. 16 pages

She has been called one of the most influential female playwrights of the twentieth century; the voice of social consciousness in American letters; the theatre's intellectual standard-bearer--and yet ... Read more

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