Conversations with Lillian Hellman
Title | Conversations with Lillian Hellman PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Hellman |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780878052943 |
From six decades, 26 interviews with the renowned playwright that show her pungency, directness, honesty, & wit. Includes three previously unprinted interviews from television broadcasts--with Dan Rather, Bill Moyers, & Marilyn Berger.
Pentimento
Title | Pentimento PDF eBook |
Author | Lillian Hellman |
Publisher | Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2000-03-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780316352888 |
In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.
Just Words
Title | Just Words PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Ackerman |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300167121 |
This title uses the dramatic life stories of different women to reflect on America's long-running inability to forge a shared public discourse. Ackerman situates the Hellman-McCarthy case in the history of failed American dialogues from the late 1920s to the present.
A Likely Story
Title | A Likely Story PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemary Mahoney |
Publisher | Anchor |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 1999-11-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 038547931X |
Now in paperback--from the author of the acclaimed Whoredom in Kimmage, a moving, controversial, and supremely intelligent memoir of a bright and vulnerable teenager's hellish summer job. In 1978, Rosemary Mahoney, an aspiring young writer of seventeen, wrote her personal idol Lillian Hellman inquiring whether the famed woman of American letters might need domestic help for the summer. When Hellman responded affirmatively, Mahoney imagined an idyll on Martha's Vineyard of mentoring and friendship. But in reality Mahoney's summer unfolded into an exquisite and grueling exercise in humiliation at the hands of the acerbic Hellman and her retinue of celebrated acquaintances. By turns heartbreaking and uproariously funny, A Likely Story portrays the coming-of-age of a brilliant and troubled young woman--a universal tale of illusions shattered and an object lesson in the often misdirected search for heroes.
Conversations with August Wilson
Title | Conversations with August Wilson PDF eBook |
Author | Jackson R. Bryer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781578068302 |
Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards--Publisher description.
Lilly
Title | Lilly PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Feibleman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780380708932 |
The author first met Hellman when he was 10 and she 35. Here he recounts the evolution of their relationship that lasted until her death.
Conversations with Thornton Wilder
Title | Conversations with Thornton Wilder PDF eBook |
Author | Thornton Wilder |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 164 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780878055142 |
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright most widely known today for his play, Our Town