WRITER

Lillian Hellman

1905 - 1984

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Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lillian Hellman has received more than 1,435,568 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Lillian Hellman is the 3,644th most popular writer (down from 3,375th in 2019), the 4,671st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,433rd in 2019) and the 387th most popular American Writer.

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  • 51.21

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

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  • 4.07

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Notable Works

The little foxes
Brothers and sisters, Drama, Extortion
1939
Scoundrel time
American Dramatists, American Women dramatists, Biography
1976
Watch on the Rhine
1941
An unfinished woman
American Dramatists, Women and literature, History
1969
Another part of the forest
1947
Pentimento - A Book Of Portraits
Hellman, lillian, 1905-1984, Biography, American Dramatists
Hollywood in the days of Sam Goldwyn . . . New York in the glittering times of Dorothy Parker and Tallulah Bankhead ... a 30-year love affair with Dashiel Hammett, and a distinguished career as a playwright. "Exquisite . . . brilliantly finished ... it will be a long time before we have another book of personal remembrance as engaging as this one.—New York Times Book Review
1973
Unfinished Woman
American Dramatists, Women and literature, History
1969
The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
Chekhov, anton pavlovich, 1860-1904, Correspondence, Russian Authors
1955
Toys In The Attic
American drama, American drama (dramatic works by one author)
1959
Scoundrel time
American Dramatists, American Women dramatists, Biography
1976
The little foxes
Drama, Brothers and sisters, Theft
1939

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lillian Hellman ranks 3,644 out of 7,302. Before her are Michitsuna's mother, Alessandro Tassoni, Ivo Vojnović, Tibor Déry, Eiko Kadono, and Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda. After her are Siegfried Sassoon, Ghada al-Samman, John Ashbery, Felix Timmermans, Driss Chraïbi, and Gonzalo Torrente Ballester.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Lillian Hellman ranks 191. Before her are D. R. Kaprekar, Ángel Melogno, Paul Grimault, Carlos Riolfo, Al Taliaferro, and Mantovani. After her are Karol Borsuk, Sanford Meisner, C. P. Snow, Étienne Mattler, Siaka Stevens, and Harold Arlen. Among people deceased in 1984, Lillian Hellman ranks 133. Before her are Valery Voronin, Giuseppe Tucci, K. D. Jadhav, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Flora Robson, and Gaëtan Dugas. After her are Arvīds Jansons, Lola Anglada, Roberto Porta, Janaki Ammal, Sam Jaffe, and Jackie Wilson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lillian Hellman ranks 4,671 out of 20,380. Before her are Milo Ventimiglia (1977), Misha Collins (1974), William Christie (1944), Rachel Ticotin (1958), Steve Kanaly (1946), and W. C. Fields (1880). After her are Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Scott Travis (1961), Amy Lee (1981), John Ashbery (1927), Michael Kors (1959), and Robert Z'Dar (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lillian Hellman ranks 387. Before her are Gene Wolfe (1931), Joss Whedon (1964), Robert W. Chambers (1865), Emma Lazarus (1849), James Tiptree Jr. (1915), and Charles Fort (1874). After her are John Ashbery (1927), Richard Yates (1926), Marta Kauffman (1956), Helen Churchill Candee (1858), Thomas Friedman (1953), and Robert Leckie (1920).

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