| Lillian Hellman  AKA Lillian Florence Hellman
Born: 20-Jun-1905
Birthplace: New Orleans, LA
Died: 30-Jun-1984
Location of death: Martha's Vineyard, MA
Cause of death: Heart Attack
Remains: Buried, Abel's Hill Cemetery, Chilmark, MA
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Playwright, Screenwriter Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Little Foxes Father: Max Hellman
Mother: Julia Newhouse
Husband: Arthur Kober (playwright, m. 1925, div. 1932)
Boyfriend: Dashiell Hammett (for thirty years, until his death in 1961)
University: New York University (attended 1922-25)
University: BA, Columbia University (1925)
University: MA, Tufts University (1940)
Law School: LLD, Wheaton College
Teacher: University of California at Berkeley
Teacher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teacher: Hunter College
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Dec-1962)
American Committee to Save Refugees
Artists' Front to Win the War
Authors League of America
Communist Party USA (1938-40)
Drama League
Dramatists Guild of America
Friends of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Hollywood Anti-Fascist League
Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
League of American Writers
League of Women Shoppers Vice President
Medical Aid to Russia
Medical Bureau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy
Motion Picture Artists Committee
National Committee for People's Rights
National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
National Council of Arts and Sciences and Professions
National Institute of Arts and Letters (May-1946)
Screen Writers Guild
Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign
Stars for Democracy
National Book Award for Arts and Letters 1970 for An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
Traveled to the USSR 1944
HUAC Hearings (21-May-1952)
Took the Fifth (21-May-1952)
Heart Attack (30-Jun-1984)
Hollywood Blacklist
German Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Ophidiophobia, Smoking
Author of books:
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (1969, memoir)
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits (1973, memoir)
Scoundrel Time (1976, memoir)
Maybe: A Story (1980, roman a clef)
Wrote plays:
The Children's Hour (1934)
Dark Angel (1935)
These Three (1936)
Dead End (1937)
Little Foxes (1939)
Watch on the Rhine (1940)
The North Star (1943)
Another Part of the Forest (1946)
Toys in the Attic (1959)
My Mother, My Father, and Me (1963, adapted from How Much? by Burt Blechman)
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