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100	1		_aKessler-Harris, Alice.
245	1	2	_aA difficult woman : _bthe challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman / _cAlice Kessler-Harris.
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Press, _c2012.
300			_a439 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 421-429) and index.
505	0		_aOld-fashioned American traditions -- A tough broad -- A serious playwright -- Politics without fear -- An American Jew -- The writer as moralist -- A self-made woman -- A known Communist -- The most dangerous hours -- Liar, liar -- Life after death.
520			_aA revelatory and provocative biography of one of the most controversial women of the twentieth century, by one of America's most renowned historians. 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 undertakes a feat few would dare to attempt: a reclamation of a combative, controversial woman who straddled so many political and cultural fault lines of her time. Kessler-Harris renders Hellman's feisty wit and personality in all of its contradictions: as a non-Jewish Jew, a displaced Southerner, a passionate political voice without a party, an artist immersed in commerce, a sexually free woman who scorned much of the women's movement, a loyal friend whose trust was often betrayed, and a writer of memoirs who repeatedly questioned the possibility of achieving truth and doubted her memory. Hellman was a writer whose plays spoke the language of morality yet whose achievements foundered on accusations of mendacity. Above all else, she was a woman who made her way in a man's world. Kessler-Harris has crafted a nuanced life of Hellman, empathetic yet unsparing, that situates her in the varied contexts in which she moved, from New Orleans to Broadway to the hearing room of HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee). A Difficult Woman is a major work of literary and intellectual history. - Publisher.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	0	_aHellman, Lillian, _d1905-1984.
600	1	0	_aHellman, Lillian, _d1905-1984 _xPolitical and social views.
600	1	7	_aHellman, Lillian, _d1905-1984. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01427356
600	1	7	_aHellman, Lillian _d1905-1984 _2gnd
600	1	4	_aHellman, Lillian, _d1905-1984.
650		0	_aDramatists, American _y20th century _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY _xHistorical. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPERFORMING ARTS _xTheater _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aDramatists, American. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00897556
650		7	_aPolitical and social views. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01353986
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
655		7	_aBiographies. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01919896.
655		7	_aBiography. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423686.
655		0	_aBiography.
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