Confederacy, 24–25, 31
Congress of the League of American Writers, Fourth National, 78
Conquest, Robert, 57
Cort, David, 39
Cowan, Arthur, 71, 100
Czechoslovakia, 60, 79, 80, 107
Daily Worker, 78
Dain Curse, The, 101
Daniel, Yuli, 121–22
Dashiell family, 41
Days to Come, 51–52
Dead End (Hellman’s film adaptation), 52
Dear Queen, The (Hellman and Kronenberger), 48
Demopolis, AL, 9, 13–14, 16–17, 20–24, 26, 27
Dennis, Peggy, 58–59
Depression, 35–36, 50
Detective fiction, 42–43, 47–49, 52, 115
Diary of Anne Frank (Goodrich and Hackett’s adaptation), 115–18
Dolan, Josephine. See Hammett, Josephine “Jose” Dolan
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 75
Dos Passos, John, 60, 61, 106, 131
Dreiser, Theodore, 38
Duranty, Walter, 58
Eating Together (Hellman and Feibleman), 55
Eisenstein, Sergei, 83, 84
“Elfinstone” manuscript (Hammett), 43
Ephron, Nora, 121, 125
Farrell, James T., 106
Father of the Bride (Goodrich and Hackett), 115
Faulkner, William, 38, 48
Faÿ, Bernard, 33–34
Feibleman, Peter, 55, 72–73, 127, 128, 130, 136
Fifth Amendment, 103, 104, 108–9, 113, 132
Fischer, Louis, 60
Fitzgerald, Scott, 48, 140
Fonda, Jane, 7, 137
Franco, Francisco, 36
Frank, Anne, 115–18
Friedman, Bruce Jay, 118
Gardiner, Muriel, 76, 77–78, 135, 137–39
Garrison, William Lloyd, 24
Gellhorn, Martha, 56, 60, 135
Germany: immigration of Jews to America from, 17–18, 30; Jews in, during nineteenth century, 17–18; Nazism and Nazi death camps in, 33, 35, 110, 117; and Nazi-Soviet Pact, 59, 77–78, 106. See also Hitler, Adolf
Gero, George, 139
Gershwin, George, 90, 91
Gershwin, Lee, 40, 52
Glass Key, The (Hammett), 43, 44
Gomułka, Władysław, 87
Goodbye, Columbus (Roth), 118
Goodrich, Frances, 115–18
Grand Hotel (Shumlin production), 50
Grant, Ulysses, 25
Great Terror, The (Conquest), 57
Group, The (McCarthy), 133
Hackett, Albert, 115–18
Hammett, Dashiell: alcoholism of, 41, 44, 47–48, 52, 67, 95; arrest and imprisonment of, 94–97, 102; assault and battery by, 44; biographies of, 3, 95–97; birth of, 41; children of, 42, 43; and Communist Party, 77, 88–89, 110, 123; copyrights of, 100–101; death of, 41, 54, 72, 96, 98, 100; decline of writing career of, 47–48, 67–68, 95; detective fiction by, 42–43, 47–49, 52, 115; on Diary of Anne Frank as play, 115; editorial assistance by, for LH’s plays, 4, 13, 49–50, 53, 95; end of sexual relationship between LH and, 67, 72; family background of, 41; finances of, 97, 100; first meeting between LH and, 40–41; and Hardscrabble Farm, 68, 95, 97; health problems of, 41–42, 47–48, 97–99; in Hollywood, 52; letters of, 3; LH’s memoirs on, 71, 72; on LH’s testimony before HUAC, 103; marriage of, to Josephine Dolan and their later separation and divorce, 42, 43, 45, 52; Nell Martin’s relationship with, 43–44; and Parker, 124; personality of, 40, 43, 44; physical appearance of, 41; as Pinkerton Detective, 41; smoking by, 41, 44–45; and Soviet Union, 13, 57, 59, 77; and Gertrude Stein, 28, 29; on Watch on the Rhine, 100; in World War I, 41–42; in World War II, 49–50
Hammett, Josephine “Jo” (Hammett’s daughter), 42, 97, 99–101, 115
Hammett, Josephine “Jose” Dolan (Hammett’s wife), 42, 43, 45, 52, 101
Hammett, Mary Jane, 42, 100, 101
Hardscrabble Farm, 68, 95, 97, 99, 126
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 3, 13, 31, 106, 130
Harris, Jed, 51
Harriman, Kathleen, 83
Harriman, W. Averell, 82, 87, 123
Hearst, William Randolph, 51
Hellman, Bernard, 24
Hellman, Hannah, 4, 5, 27
Hellman, Jenny, 4, 5, 27
Hellman, Julia Newhouse, 4–5, 15, 26, 27, 37
Hellman, Lillian: abortions by, 38, 52; alcoholism of, 34, 44, 92, 126; anti-Semitism of, 34, 40, 119; biographies of, 3, 5, 109; birth of, 4, 27; death of, 3, 55, 73, 96, 101, 142; early jobs of, 4, 38, 39, 50; education of, 4, 27, 37; end of sexual relationship between Hammett and, 67, 72; finances of, 5, 21–22, 31–32, 50, 71, 97–101; first meeting between Hammett and, 40–41; in France, 29–30, 39, 52, 56, 59–60, 64, 75; and Hammett’s arrest and need for bail, 94–97; and Hammett’s biographers, 96–97; and Hammett’s copyrights, 100–101; Hammett’s editorial assistance for plays by, 4, 13, 49–50, 53, 95; as Hammett’s executor, 100; and Hardscrabble Farm, 68, 95, 97, 99, 126; health problems of, 126–28, 141–42; in Hollywood, 4, 28, 39, 52, 74; homes of, 4, 5, 27, 37, 52, 55, 68, 73, 97, 98, 99, 126, 142; honors and awards for, 50, 55, 99, 120; HUAC testimony by, 2, 7, 98, 102–13, 115, 140; Jewish identity of, 3, 34–35, 40, 114–15, 119; lawsuit against Mary McCarthy by, 7, 126, 130, 133–40, 142–43; truthfulness of, 7, 34, 76, 88–89, 96–97, 107, 109, 129–43; marriage of, 4, 37–40, 45–46, 71; parents and family background of, 4–6, 8, 15–27, 37; as Parker’s literary executor, 124–25; personality of, 2–8, 31, 32, 39, 49, 66, 126, 127; political views of, and Communist Party, 2, 3, 6, 29, 36, 45, 61–63, 70, 76–77, 89, 105–6, 111–12, 121, 125–26, 141; psychoanalysis of, 34, 68–69, 90–93, 139; screenwriting by, 2, 52, 74; significance of, 2; smoking by, 44–45, 126; in Soviet Union, 13, 56–59, 65, 68, 81–89, 121–23, 129, 140; and Spanish Civil War, 36, 59–62, 79, 131, 140–41; teaching by, 52, 121; on truth as objective of writers, 54; will of, 73; truthfulness of, 7, 34, 76, 88–89, 96–97, 107, 109, 129–43; youth of, in New Orleans and New York City, 4, 5, 7–8, 21–22, 27, 32. See also Memoirs of Lillian Hellman; and specific writings
Hellman, Max, 4–5, 8, 21, 27, 37
Hemingway, Ernest: and Gellhorn, 56, 60; and Hammett, 48; and LH, 29–30, 140–41; and Spanish Civil War, 56, 60; and Stein, 29, 30
Herbst, Josephine, 60, 61
Hersey, John, 83
Hiss, Alger, 102
Hitler, Adolf: attack on Soviet Union by, 78; and LH, 110, 111; and Nazi-Soviet Pact, 59, 77–78, 106; and Spanish Civil War, 60; Stein on, 33, 36
Hollywood: blacklisting by, 98, 112, 115; dinner party for Gertrude Stein in, 28–29; first meeting between LH and Hammett in, 40–41; Hammett in, 52; LH’s assessment of her testimony before, 113; LH’s early jobs in, 4, 39; LH’s screenwriting in, 52, 74; Screen Writers Guild in, 52
Hollywood Ten, 102
Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), 61
Hook, Sidney, 106, 110, 111–12
Hopkins, Harry, 82
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC): Fifth Amendment taken by witnesses before, 103, 104, 108–9, 113, 132; Hammett on LH’s testimony before, 103; Kazan’s testimony before, 104, 112; LH’s let - ter to, 104, 108–9; LH’s testimony before, 2, 7, 98, 102–13, 115, 132, 140; Arthur Miller’s testimony before, 109, 132; Odets’ testimony before, 104; and Rauh as LH’s lawyer, 103, 105, 107–9; Schulberg’s testimony before, 104, 112–13; Scoundrel Time on, 98, 103–5, 107–11
Howe, Irving, 106, 110–11, 114
How Much? (Blechman), 118
HUAC. See House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) Hungary, 106, 107
Ingersoll, Ralph, 50, 67, 90
James, Clive, 63, 136–37
Jewish literature, 114–19. See also specific writers
Jews: in Alabama, 16–21; and Civil War, 24–25, 31; in Germany in nineteenth century, 17–18; Grant’s order against, in Union-occupied areas during Civil War, 25; Hellman’s Jewish identity, 3, 34–35, 40, 114–15, 119; immigration of, to
America, 17–18, 30, 40; Kober’s Jewish identity, 40; in My Mother, My Father and Me, 24; as peddlers in America, 17, 18–20, 30, 31; population of, in South, 24; and Slansky trial in Czechoslovakia, 60, 80; as slave owners, 24; Stein’s Jewish identity, 32–33; and Talmud, 22, 24; and theater adaptation of The Diary of Ann Frank, 115–18. See also AntiSemitism; Marx headings
Johnson, Diane, 43, 95–97, 101
Judaism. See Anti-Semitism; Jews
Judt, Tony, 61, 105, 117
Julia (movie), 7, 120, 137
“Julia” (story): Feibleman on, 136; Muriel Gardiner on, 76, 77–78, 137–39; LH’s commentary on, in 1979, 127; LH’s version of, 74–77, 107, 117; McCarthy on, 135–36; and Podhoretz, 136, 142; questions about veracity of, 38, 56, 76, 135–36, 138–40, 142
Justice Department Watch, 126
Kanin, Garson, 116, 118
Katz, Otto, 34, 59–60, 79–80
Kazan, Elia, 71, 104, 112
Kazin, Alfred, 89, 106
Kempton, Murray, 106, 110
Kennan, George, 69, 82, 87
Kennedy, Jackie, 121
Khrushchev, Nikita, 121, 123
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 124, 125
Kingsley, Sidney, 52
Kober, Arthur: and bail money for Hammett, 94; divorce of, 46; Jewish identity of, 40; on LH’s political views, 62; on LH’s sexual relationships, 68; and LH’s writing career, 48, 52; marriage of, to LH, 4, 37–40, 45–46, 71; meeting between LH and, 37, 38; personality of, 38, 39–40; psychoanalysis of, 90; writing career of, 39, 40
Koestler, Arthur, 60
Kołakowski, Leszek, 61
Kopelev, Lev, 122, 123
Kronenberger, Louis, 48
Kutcher, James, 110
Lark, The (Hellman’s adaptation), 98
Lash, Joseph, 138
Lehman brothers, 20
Levin, Meyer, 116
Liberator, 24
Little Foxes, The: as based on Marx family, 9, 21–23, 26, 32; difficulties in writing of, 53; Hammett’s editorial assistance with, 53, 95; Hubbard family in, 13, 21, 22, 53, 118; opening date of, 1, 9; success of, 49, 52, 68; theme of, 53, 118
London, Ephraim, 130, 135, 139
Louisiana. See New Orleans
MacDonald, Dwight, 106, 107, 133
Mailer, Norman, 2, 134, 140
Malamud, Bernard, 114, 118
Mandelstam, Osip, 84, 86
Martha’s Vineyard, 34, 55, 95, 96, 99–100, 112, 116, 136, 142
Martin, Nell, 43–44
Marx, Amelia Weidenreich, 23, 25, 26
Marx, Edward, 26
Marx, Henry, 20, 26
Marx, Isaac: attitude of, toward poverty, 22; birth of, in Bavaria, 17; brothers of, 20, 23; as businessman, 21, 22, 26; children of, 15, 21, 23, 25; in Civil War, 24–25; death of, 15, 18, 26; in Demopolis, AL, 9, 13–14, 16–17, 20–24, 26; family background of, 17–18; homes of, 23, 25; immigration of, to Alabama, 5–6, 9, 15, 18, 30; marriage of, 18, 23; in Mobile, AL, 25–26, 30; as peddler, 17, 18–20; slaves of, 24; wealth and property of, 23–26
Marx, Jacob, 26, 27
Marx, Julius, 25, 26
Marx, Lehman, 20, 22
Marx, Moses, 23
Marx Brothers Banking Company, 21
Marxism, 61. See also Communist Party
Maryland, 30–31
Matthau, Walter, 34, 119
Maybe, 128, 137
McCarthy, Joe, 104, 111, 112, 125
McCarthy, Mary: on factual accuracy in writing, 130–31; on false statements in LH’s memoirs, 133–34; friends of, 133; and Hardwick on LH, 3; on LH during Dick Cavett show, 130; LH on writing by, 132; LH’s lawsuit against, 7, 126, 130, 133–40, 142–43; on LH’s plays, 132; meetings between LH and, 131; memoirs by, 133; on Miller’s testimony before HUAC, 132; on Soviet Union, 106, 131; on Spanish Civil War, 131; writings by, 130, 133
McCarthyism, 2, 7, 70, 98, 102–13, 123
McCracken, Samuel, 142
McKelway, St. Clair, 68
Melby, John, 68–70, 71, 82, 83, 88, 92
Memoirs of Lillian Hellman: childhood incidents in, 7–8, 21–22; on Hammett, 52, 71, 72, 88–89; LH on truth of, 129; on love life, 52, 64, 71–72; McCarthy on, 133–34; McCracken on, 142; motivation of, for writing, 5, 55, 121; questions on veracity of, 5, 7–8, 38, 56, 76, 88–89, 135–36, 138–40, 142; republication of, in one volume, 57, 111, 127, 129, 137; on Soviet Union and Stalin, 57, 62, 86, 122; on Spanish Civil War, 60; writing and publication of, 6–7, 55, 126. See also “Julia” (story); Pentimento; Scoundrel Time; Three; Unfinished Woman, An
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (McCarthy), 133
Miller, Arthur, 2, 54–55, 71, 109, 132
Misch, Robert, 131
Mobile, AL, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25–26, 30
Mussolini, Benito, 60
My Mother, My Father and Me, 54, 118–19
NAACP, 124–25
Navasky, Vict5or, 103
Nelson, Steve, 60
Newhouse, Julia. See Hellman, Julia Newhouse
Newhouse, Leonard, 26
Newhouse, Sophie Marx, 15, 23, 26–27
New Orleans: boardinghouse run by Hellman sisters in, 4, 5, 27; Max Hellman’s business in, 27; LH’s youth in, 4, 5, 7–8, 27; move of Sophie Marx Newhouse to, 27; segregation in, 7–8
New Republic, 133
New York City: Ansonia Hotel in, 27; Hammett’s move to, 43; Hellman family in, 4, 27, 37; Jewish immigrant culture in, 15, 40; LH’s homes in, 27, 37, 98, 99; LH’s move to, from Hollywood, 45; Newhouse family in, 27
New York Daily Mirror, 11
New Yorker, 48, 50, 68, 133
New York Post, 51
New York Review of Books, 133
New York Times: on Another Part of the Forest, 11; on Days to Come, 51; on The Diary of Anne Frank, 116; on “Julia,” 138; on LH’s travel to Soviet Union, 129; Mailer’s ad in, on LH’s lawsuit against McCarthy, 134; on major living American playwrights, 54–55; on Maybe, 14; on Scoundrel Time, 58
New York Times Book Review, 55
New York University, 4, 37
Nixon, Richard, 126
Odets, Clifford, 2, 15, 104
O’Neill, Eugene, 2
Orlova, Raya, 83, 86–87, 122–23
Orwell, George, 60–61
O’Sullivan, Ben, 133–35
Ozick, Cynthia, 117
Paris Comet, 48
Paris Review, 131, 132, 135
Parker, Dorothy, 1, 56, 60, 123–25, 140
Parks, Rosa, 8
Partisan Review, 133
Pasternak, Boris, 84
Pentimento, 55, 74, 76, 107, 120, 136–40. See also “Julia” (story); Memoirs of Lillian Hellman
Perelman, Laura, 67
Perelman, S. J., 67, 139–40
Phillips, William, 106
Podhoretz, Norman, 136, 142
Poland, 87, 106, 115
Polonsky, Abraham, 112
Porter, Katherine Anne, 61
Pravda, 79
Prica, Srdja, 70
Progressive Party, 69, 106
Prose, Francine, 116
Psychoanalysis, 34, 68–69, 74, 90–93, 139
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 91
Rahv, Philip, 133
Rather, Dan, 111
Rauh, Joseph, 105, 107–9, 135
Redgrave, Vanessa, 7, 137
Rich brothers, 20
Robles, Jose, 61, 131
Roethke, Theodore, 68
Rollyson, Carl, 109
Roosevelt, Franklin, 35–36, 81, 123, 138
Roosevelt, James, 67
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 102
Roth, Henry, 114
Roth, Philip, 118
Roughead, William, 49
Russia. See Soviet Union
Samuels, Dorothy, 126
Schapiro, Meyer, 133
Schulberg, Benn, 112–13
Schulberg, Budd, 104, 112–13
Scoundrel Time: anti-Stalinist Left in America as scoundrels of, 104–8, 115;
criticisms on and inaccuracy of, 7, 107, 110–11, 134; on HUAC testimony by LH, 98, 103–5, 107–11; on Jewish timorousness, 115; publication of, 7, 55, 109, 127; reviews of, 109–10. See also Memoirs of Lillian Hellman
Screen Writers Guild, 52
Searching Wind, The, 49–50, 81
Shumlin, Herman, 1, 50, 68, 90
Sifton, Elizabeth, 131
Silvers, Robert, 133
Simon, Otto. See Katz, Otto
Simone, André. See Katz, Otto
Sinyavsky, Andrei, 121–22
Slanksy, Rudolf, 80
Slavery, 12, 14, 19, 20, 24, 31
Smith, Randall, 70
Smith Act, 102, 111
Socialism, 77, 93, 110–11
Socialist Workers Party, 110
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 121, 122
Sontag, Susan, 121
Soviet Union: anti-Semitism in, 83, 107, 117; Berlin blockade by, 107; and Bolshevik revolution, 57; espionage by, 102; famine in Ukraine in, 58; and Hammett, 13, 57, 59, 77; intellectuals, artists and writers in, 84–86, 121–22; Kazin in, 89; Kennan on, 69, 82; Khrushchev in, 121, 123; LH in, 13, 56–59, 65, 68, 81–89, 121–23, 129, 140; LH’s support of, 36, 59, 62, 63, 77, 111; and Nazi-Soviet Pact, 59, 77–78, 106; post-war events by, 106–7; purges in, 57–59, 79, 85–86, 106; and Spanish Civil War, 60–61, 106, 131; Henry Wallace in, 82; in World War II, 78, 82, 83, 86–87, 122, 123. See also Stalin, Joseph
Spanish Civil War: and Hemingway, 56, 60; and Hitler, 60; and LH, 36, 59–62, 79, 131, 140–41; McCarthy on, 131; and Soviet Union, 60–61, 106, 131
Spender, Stephen, 135
Stalin, Joseph: and Allies during World War II, 82, 123; and anti-Stalinist Left in America, 104–8; death of, 107; Khrushchev’s denunciation of, 121, 123; and LH, 36, 62, 63, 81, 84, 88, 92, 111–12, 123, 140; Melby on, 69; and Nazi-Soviet Pact, 59, 77–78, 106; post-war events by, 106–7; purges by, 57–59, 79, 85–86, 106; and Socialist Realism, 84; territorial ambitions of, 82, 106; and Warsaw Uprising, 87. See also Soviet Union
State Department, U.S., 70, 102
Stein, Daniel, 30, 31
Stein, Gertrude: autobiographical material in works by, 32; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by, 29, 32–33; compared with LH, 28–35; family background of, 30–31; and Hammett, 28, 29; and Hemingway, 29, 30; on Hitler, 33, 36; Hollywood dinner party for, 28–29; Jewish identity of, 32–33; lecture tour of America by, 29, 33; physical appearance of, 28–29; political views of, 29, 35–36; self-confidence of, 31, 32; wealthy family of, 31; during World War II, 33–34; writing style of, 29; youth of, 32
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