The second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed playwright and National Book Award-winning author. In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.

This is a new release of the original 1934 edition.

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Additional Contributors Are John Latouche And Dorothy Parker.

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Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth." When, in her seventh decade, Hellman turned for the first time to autobiography, she had already achieved world renown as a playwright and lived much of her life in the limelight-which is perhaps why the intimate view of her world that she affords us in these pages seems so surprising. In scenes by turns biting and poignant, she recalls the New Orleans of her childhood; early adventures in book publishing; the high life in Depression-era Hollywood; travels through Russia, Spain, and Germany on the eve of World War II; encounters with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker; and her long relationship with her "most beloved friend," Dashiell Hammett.

These six plays span nearly twenty years of theatre and display the range of Lillian Hellman's dramatic gifts. The Children's Hour (1934), her first play, was considered shocking at the time; it concerns the devastating effects of a child's malicious charge of lesbianism against two of her teachers. Days to Come (1936) is about the tragic consequences of strike-breaking in a small Midwestern community. The Little Foxes (1939) and Another Part of the Forest (1946) together constitute a chilling study of the financial and psychological conflicts within the Hubbards, a wealthy and rapacious Southern family. Watch on the Rhine (1941), the story of how fascism affects an American family and the refugees they harbor, won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The Autumn Garden (1951) is a poignant yet humorous drama set at a summer resort near New Orleans.

Introduction by Garry Wills

Foreword by Kathy Bates

Lillian Hellman is remembered not only as an accomplished playwright, an acclaimed memoirist, and an irrepressible curmudgeon, but as a controversial figure during the early days of the McCarthy era. In 1952, her refusal to become an informer for the House Un-American Activities Committee earned her a mix of respect and disdain, as well as a place on the Hollywood blacklist.

This remarkable chronicle, the third and final volume of Hellman's memoirs, is a powerful evocation of her experiences during that volatile period. The cast of characters includes her lover, the writer Dashiell Hammett; a slew of famous friends and colleagues; and a legendary pack of "scoundrels"-ruthless, ambitious politicians and the people who complied with their demands. Scoundrel Time is vintage Hellman: iconoclastic and enduring.