Lillian Hellman (Hellman Lillian)

(1905-1984)
Born June 20, 1905 in New Orleans (pc. Louisiana). She studied at New York University and Columbia University. She worked as an editor, journalist, theater critic. In 1934 wrote the play Children's Hour (The Children's Hour) - about the painful vengeful schoolgirl tarnished by two teachers. In the next play, Hellman, . Day will come (Days to Come, . delivered in 1936), . depicted the struggle between labor and capital, . but she brought real success Vulpecula (The Little Foxes, . 1939) derived a family of nouveaux riches, . obsessive desire for gain in the reconstruction of the South,
. During the Second World War, topical Hellman wrote the play Die Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine, . 1941), . centered on the conflict between German anti-fascist and fascist agents, . and piercing wind (The Searching Wind, . 1944), . which exposes the U.S. foreign policy, . prevent the spread of fascism,
. In another part of the forest (Another Part of the Forest, 1946) Hellman tells the prehistory 'Chanterelle', describes the fate of the older generation of this southern family. In 1949, in New York was put Regina (Regina), musical performance by Vulpecula. Of the later pieces known to Montserrat (Montserrat, 1949), Autumn Garden (The Autumn Garden, 1951), Toys in the attic (Toys in the Attic, 1959) and Mother, Father and I (My Mother, My Father and Me, 1963). Hellman Unfinished Autobiography woman (An Unfinished Woman, 1969) was awarded the National Book Award. She has written two books of memoirs - Pentimento (art criticism, the term means painted by the artist details; 1973) and Time Scoundrels (Scoundrel Time, 1979). Her mentor and close friend for almost all life was a well known author of detective novels D. Hammett.