Lillian Hellman

Toys in the Attic

Play about family secrets and social climbing in New Orleans

About the author

Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman

American playwright and memoirist whose Scoundrel Time documented the blacklist period with passionate intensity. Her memoirs—An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento—were celebrated as literary achievements even as their truthfulness was contested. She famously clashed with Mary McCarthy.

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