Few literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Even fewer have been doubted as absolutely as Hellman

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

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

Introduction / Mark W. Estrin -- The dramaturgy of blackmail in the Ibsenite Hellman / Jacob H. Adler -- Miss Hellman's two sisters / Jacob H. Adler -- The autu