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Lillian Hellman

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by Dorothy Gallagher


  Stewart, Dorothy, 17

  Styron, William, 134

  Swift, Kay, 90, 91

  Talmud, 22, 24

  Teichmann, Howard, 125

  Thin Man, The (Hammett), 47, 48, 49, 52, 115

  Thomas, Norman, 110–11

  Three, 111, 127, 129, 137. See also “Julia” (story); Memoirs of Lillian Hellman; Pentimento; Scoundrel Time; Unfinished Woman, An

  Time Magazine, 68, 83, 110

  To Have and to Have Not (Hemingway), 30

  Toklas, Alice B., 33–34

  Toys in the Attic, 99

  Trilling, Diana and Lionel, 106

  Trotsky, Leon, 57, 59, 110, 131

  “Tulip” manuscript (Hammett), 47

  Unfinished Woman, An, 7, 55, 58, 79, 107, 120, 140. See also Memoirs of Lillian Hellman

  Union of Soviet Writers, 85

  University of South Alabama, 25

  USSR. See Soviet Union

  Vishinsky, Andrei, 57–58

  Waldorf Conference for World Peace, 106

  Wallace, Henry, 69–70, 82, 106

  Warsaw Uprising, 87

  Warshow, Robert, 24, 33

  Watch on the Rhine: absence of Jewish characters in, 34–35; character of Kurt Muller in, 34–35, 60, 74, 75–76, 78–79; criticisms of, 78; Hammett on, 78; opening of, 78; success of, 49; theme of anti-Fascism in, 2, 34–35, 54–55, 78; White House performance of, 81; writing of, 35, 53, 76, 78

  Weidman, Jerome, 94

  Wertenbaker, Charles, 68

  West, Nathanael, 67

  Wexler, Milton, 93, 135

  Wharton, Edith, 50

  Wilder, Thornton, 32–33

  Williams, Tennessee, 2, 54–55

  Woollcott, Alexander, 32–33

  World War I, 41–42

  World War II: Hammett in, 49–50; Nazi death camps during, 33, 110, 117; and Nazi-Soviet Pact, 59, 77–78, 106; Pearl Harbor during, 54; Soviet soldiers’ atrocities against German civilians during, 122, 123; and Soviet Union, 78, 82, 83, 86–87, 122, 123; Stein and Toklas during, 33–34; Warsaw Uprising during, 87. See also “Julia” (story)

  Wyler, Talli, 40, 141–42

  Wyler, William, 96, 142

  Young, Stanley, 55

  Zilboorg, Gregory, 34, 68–69, 90–93, 95

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