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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans, spent her childhood between New Orleans and New York, attended New York University and Columbia. In 1934 she launched her career as a playwright with The Children's Hour. Over the next three decades came a succession of achievements in the theatre: she has twice been awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Prize for the best play of the year.

Miss Hellman's memoir An Unfinished Woman won the National Book Award in 1969. She also received the Gold Medal for drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University. She held honorary degrees from Wheaton College, Tufts University, and Rutgers University. She served as Regents' Professor at the University of California in Berkeley, and Distinguished Professor at Hunter College. She lived in New York City and Martha's Vineyard.

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American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)

Born 20 June 1905
Died 30 June 1984

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  • Cover of: Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre
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    Cover of edition twentybestplayso00john First published in 1939 — 4 editions
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    First published in 1951 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: My mother, my father and me;: [a play] Based on Burt Blechman's novel How much?

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  • Cover of: Six Plays By Lillian Hellman: The Children's Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Another Part of the Forest, & The Autumn Garden

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American dramatist and screenwriter (1905-1984)

Born 20 June 1905
Died 30 June 1984

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American drama, Drama, American Dramatists, Biography, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Hellman, lillian, 1905-1984, American Women dramatists, History, Plays, Brothers and sisters, Classic Literature, Collections, Dramatists, biography, Families, Fiction, Literature, National socialism, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Refugees, American literature, Confederacy, Drama, collections, Dramatists, English drama

Places

United States, Alabama, England, Massachusetts, Missouri, Owl Creek Bridge, Saint Louis, Andover, Barbados, Boston, China, Eastern Europe, France, Israel, London, Louisiana, Mallard residence, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Milford meeting house, New England, New Orleans, New York, Saint Louis (Mo.), Salem, Salem (Mass.)

People

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), Lillian Hellman (1906-), Amanda Wingfield, Devil, Jim O'Connor, Joan of Arc, Saint (1412-1431), Laura Wingfield, Lillian Hellman (1906-1984), Peyton Farquhar, Sarah Cameron, Tom Wingfield, Abigail Williams, Alfred Doolittle, Ann Putnam, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Arthur Miller (1915-), Bernard, Betty Parris, Biff, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Charley, Colonel Pickering, Eliza Doolittle, Elizabeth

Time

20th century, 19th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, 1600s, 1692, 1861-65, 1912, Biography, Charles VII, 1422-1461, Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, December, carnival

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March 17, 2025 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 20, 2023 Edited by bitnapper Edited without comment.
September 20, 2023 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
September 19, 2023 Edited by Marla Added birth/death dates
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import