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Before delving into the past, hellman explains what she was attempting to accomplish with her book and why she named it pentimento. Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, lillian hellman, one writer noted, can take the tops off bottles with her teeth. As a playwright, hellman had many successes on broadway, including watch on the rhine, the autumn garden, toys in the attic, another part of the forest, the childrens hour and the little foxes. In this widely praised followup to her national book awardwinning 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. Playwright lillian hellman was born in new orleans on june 20, in 1905. Educated at new york university and at columbia university, new york, hellman became a highly acclaimed.
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