A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman

by Alice Kessler-Harris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596913630
• ISBN13: 9781596913639
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"