Lillian Hellman

Hellman, Lillian

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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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Una mujer con atributos
Representative edition published 2022
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Searching Wind, a Play in Two Acts
Representative edition published 2021
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Watch on the Rhine
Representative edition published 2018
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La loba
Representative edition published 2012
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The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
Representative edition published 2007
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Representative edition published 2005
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An Unfinished Woman
Representative edition published 2005
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Pentimento - A Book Of Portraits
Representative edition published 2003
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Unfinished Woman
Representative edition published 2001
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Scoundrel time
Representative edition published 2000
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Toys In The Attic
Representative edition published 1998
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Guneyli Bayan'in Ozel Defteri
Representative edition published 1994
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Little Foxes and Another Part of the Forest
Representative edition published 1993
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Quizás, un relato
Representative edition published 1992
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Famous American plays of the 1950s
Representative edition published 1988
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Papier tue-mouches
Representative edition published 1987
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Conversations with Lillian Hellman
Representative edition published 1986
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Representative edition published 1985
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Eating together
Representative edition published 1984
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The Children's Hour
Representative edition published 1981
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Maybe
Representative edition published 1980
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Six Plays
Representative edition published 1979
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Three
Representative edition published 1979
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Julia und andere Erzählungen
Representative edition published 1978
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