Lillian Hellman has been accused of invoking Dashiell Hammett's memory in her autobiographies in order to bolster her own reputation. But as one of the few female American playwrights to produce ...

Joan Mellen has presented in one volume the biographies of two of the more prominent American writers of this century, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. It is logical that they should be ...

A longtime companion of playwright Lillian Hellman, Hammett was jailed briefly ... including the “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett,” edited by Richard Layman with Hammett granddaughter ...

Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans in 1905 ... Five years into their marriage Hellman met Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), writer of detective novels. (Think Sam Spade and Nick and Nora ...

2001-04-18 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco-- Dashiell Hammett left San ... family had to deal with the estate of Hammett's longtime lover, Lillian Hellman, who had locked up the rights to all of ...

Steeped in the foggy mystery of the sin-loving city on the Pacific edge of the continent, "The Maltese Falcon" made Dashiell ... He had a long future with Lillian Hellman, whom he met a few ...

Dashiell Hammett remembered his first meeting with Lillian Hellman taking place at the Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles in 1930. She wore a mustard-colored suit and a cloche hat with feathers ...

“Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921-1960” was harvested ... Hammett was introduced to Lillian Hellman, at the time the wife of screenwriter Arthur Kober. As the book’s editors ...

In "Lillian," which is being given an ... young girl of having a lesbian relationship. Hellman dedicated the play to womanizing, cigarette smoking, hard-drinking detective novelist Dashiell Hammett ...