People remain fascinated by her love affairs, her thirty-year relationship with the detective fiction writer Dashiell Hammett, and her visits to Spain during it

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 autho

This portrait traces the controversial life of the successful playwright, including her relationship with Dashiell Hammett and details her active role in ideolo

Now in paperback--from the author of the acclaimed Whoredom in Kimmage, a moving, controversial, and supremely intelligent memoir of a bright and vulnerable tee

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.