Lillian Hellman was one of the most influential and successful playwrights of her time. Throughout her professional life she has expanded her writing into different genres, as well as being a playwright she was a screenwriter during a popular time in Hollywood and later in her life she wrote many popular memoirs reviewing her life. Hellman was gripped with many obstacles in her career and personal life, including a torrid love affair with writer Dashiell …showed first 75 words of 801 total…

…showed last 75 words of 801 total…time,” one critic said about her work. She was thought of as a strong woman in hard times, “I don’t have to tell you how deeply I believe in women’s liberation. I think some of its cries are rather empty cries because I think it all comes down to whether or not you can support yourself as well as a man can support himself.” (Bryer dust cover) Lillian Hellman died on June 30th 1984.