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Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans on June 20, 1905.
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Hellman attended New York public schools and New York University and Columbia University. But she did not graduate.
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She moved to New York with her family in 1910, but spent half the year living in a boarding house with her aunts.
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She married Arthur Kober.He was a playwright and writer,later they divorced 1932
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She met Dashiell Hammett at a restaruant in hollywood in 1930 she was 24 and he was 36 they met when both were married to other people.Until he passed in 1961
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She begins working as a script reader in hollywood,
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Her first major play was “The Children’s Hour” premiered on broadway.it was a drama about damaging lies and false accusations.
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Days to come(1936)
The little foxes(1939)
Watch on the rhine(1941) -
She won the New york drama critics award for “Watch On The Rhine”
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Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the Red Scare.
Refuses to name others and delivers her famous statement: “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” -
An unfinished woman ( 1969
Pentimento (1973) -
Toys in the Attic was produced and becomes another major work of hers .
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Dashiell Hammett was lillian hellman’s partner since 1930s and he passed away in 1973.
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she released Scoundrel Time.
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Lillian Hellman, passed away August 30, 1984. She was 79