Conversations With Lillian Hellman

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878052943
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Lillian Hellman written by Lillian Hellman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From six decades, 26 interviews with the renowned playwright that show her pungency, directness, honesty, & wit. Includes three previously unprinted interviews from television broadcasts--with Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, & Marilyn Berger.

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316352888
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pentimento written by Lillian Hellman and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2000-03-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.

Author : Alan Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300167121
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Words written by Alan Ackerman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title uses the dramatic life stories of different women to reflect on America's long-running inability to forge a shared public discourse. Ackerman situates the Hellman-McCarthy case in the history of failed American dialogues from the late 1920s to the present.

Author : Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038547931X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Likely Story written by Rosemary Mahoney and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1999-11-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--from the author of the acclaimed Whoredom in Kimmage, a moving, controversial, and supremely intelligent memoir of a bright and vulnerable teenager's hellish summer job. In 1978, Rosemary Mahoney, an aspiring young writer of seventeen, wrote her personal idol Lillian Hellman inquiring whether the famed woman of American letters might need domestic help for the summer. When Hellman responded affirmatively, Mahoney imagined an idyll on Martha's Vineyard of mentoring and friendship. But in reality Mahoney's summer unfolded into an exquisite and grueling exercise in humiliation at the hands of the acerbic Hellman and her retinue of celebrated acquaintances. By turns heartbreaking and uproariously funny, A Likely Story portrays the coming-of-age of a brilliant and troubled young woman--a universal tale of illusions shattered and an object lesson in the often misdirected search for heroes.

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578068302
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with August Wilson written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards--Publisher description.

Author : Alan Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300171803
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Words written by Alan Ackerman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an appearance on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878055142
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Thornton Wilder written by Thornton Wilder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town

Author : Joan Mellen
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellman and Hammett written by Joan Mellen and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1997 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first dual biography of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, New York Times bestselling author Joan Mellen sheds new light on two of the twentieth century's most intriguing characters. The first biographer to draw from the Hellman-Hammett archives at the University of Texas, and with unprecedented access to their circle of friends, Mellen taps mines of fresh material to produce a groundbreaking look at these extraordinary American nonconformists, separately and together. Cutting against the social and political grain of their day, Hellman and Hammett as proud American radicals were persecuted during McCarthyism. They also turned out some of the most compelling prose of our country: Hammett's classic Red Harvest, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, and Hellman's plays The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, and her memoirs An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento. Meanwhile, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett defied every accepted formula of how a man and woman should love each other: intimate as a couple, they lived together infrequently, drank to excess, participated in orgies, and engaged in flagrant infidelities. For the first time, members of Hellman and Hammett's circle, including Peter Feibleman, Norman Mailer, and Rose Styron, have agreed to speak openly about this enigmatic relationship which defined an era.

Author : Peter Feibleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780380708932
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lilly written by Peter Feibleman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author first met Hellman when he was 10 and she 35. Here he recounts the evolution of their relationship that lasted until her death.

Author : Lillian Hellman
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822200826
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autumn Garden written by Lillian Hellman and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1952 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In the words of New York Post : Miss Hellman is contemplating the meaning of middle age to an assorted group of people gathered together in a summer home... All of them are in one way or another frustrated and unhappy. Most of them