A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
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Nyack Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography
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Nyack Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography | HELLMAN | On Shelf |
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography | B Hellman | On Shelf |
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Biography & Autobiography | B Hellman | On Shelf |
New City Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography | B HELLMAN | On Shelf |
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography | B HELLMAN | On Shelf |
Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography | B HELLMAN, LILLIAN | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
439 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-429) and index.
Description
A revelatory and provocative biography of one of the most controversial women of the twentieth century, by one of America's most renowned historians. Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway. Yet the author of The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic is today remembered more as a toxic, bitter survivor and literary fabulist, the woman of whom Mary McCarthy said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the.'" In A Difficult Woman, renowned historian Alice Kessler-Harris undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory. Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee). A Difficult Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history."--,Publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kessler-Harris, A. (2012). A difficult woman: the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman (First U.S. edition.). Bloomsbury Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kessler-Harris, Alice. 2012. A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. Bloomsbury Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kessler-Harris, Alice. A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kessler-Harris, Alice. A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman First U.S. edition., Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
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