Books
A LIKELY STORY: One Summer with Lillian Hellman. By Rosemary Mahoney (Doubleday: 288 pp., $23.95)
Nov. 15, 1998
Entertainment & Arts
Dick Cavett, the veteran talk show host, will play himself in the Los Angeles premiere of a play based on the long-running feud between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.
Nov. 18, 2014
When Lillian Hellman was young, she threw herself from a tree in anger and smashed her nose.
June 19, 1988
In this meticulously researched, evenhanded and intuitive biography of America’s arguably greatest female playwright, author William Wright (“Pavarotti: My Own Story”; “The Von Bulow Affair”) has written three books in one.
Jan. 4, 1987
In ‘Imaginary Friends,’ Nora Ephron turns the war of words between Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy into a smart comedy that revels in wit.
Oct. 1, 2002
For roughly half the years of this century, playwright, memoirist and political street-fighter Lillian Hellman was one of the more riveting figures on the American scene.
Oct. 9, 1988
The three-decade relationship between Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman ranks with Scott and Zelda and Jean Paul Sartre and Simone DeBeauvoir in 20th century literary legend.
Dec. 29, 1996
Swoosie Kurtz and Cherry Jones work around their mutual regard to convey Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman’s common enmity.
Dec. 1, 2002
Often called the father of “hard-boiled” crime fiction, Dashiell Hammett wrote such classics as “The Maltese Falcon” and “The Thin Man” during the 1920s and ‘30s, creating iconic characters Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles.
June 3, 2001
Unlike today’s mostly promotional late-night talk shows, “The Dick Cavett Show,” which ran from 1968-74 on ABC and later on public television, had a history of controversial, even combustible, moments.
Feb. 7, 2015