Conversations with Lillian Hellman by Jackson R Bryer

Conversations with Lillian Hellman by Jackson R Bryer

This volume includes twenty-six conversations with Lillian Hellman, ranging from early newspaper interviews on the occasions of the Broadway openings of her plays through extended talks with her which appears in the Paris Review, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, down to her last interviews in the early 1980s.

In all these interviews, Miss Hellman gives her own account of her eventful and exciting life, her evaluations and analyses of her plays and accounts of how and why they came to be written. Throughout, her views are expressed with the pungency, directness, honesty, and wit which made Lillian Hellman such a universally admired and respected figure.

Hellman was seldom far from where the action was. The controversies in which she was involved are equaled only by the honors she received. This volume supplements her own memories by providing her own account of her life as she lived it--rather than from the vantage of the late 1960s and 1970s when she composed the memoirs.

Lillian Hellman grew up in New Orleans and went to New York University and Columbia University for her education. She composed The Seeking Wind and Toys in the Attic, as well as collaborating on the text for a musical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide with Richard Wilbur. On June 30, 1984, she passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780878052943
ISBN 10	0878052941
Title	Conversations with Lillian Hellman
Author	Jackson R Bryer
Series	Literary Conversations Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University Press of Mississippi
Year published	1986-10-30
Number of pages	277
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