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Hellman, Lillian Florence
1905 - Born on June 20th in New Orleans, Los Angeles.
1922 - Attended New York University.
1925 - Married to Arthur Kober.
- Received her B.A. from Columbia University.
1934-1939 - She wrote the plays The Children's Hour, Dark Angel, These Three, Dead End and Little Foxes.
1940 - Received her M.A. from Tufts University.
- Wrote the play Watch on the Rhine.
1943-1963 - Wrote the the plays The North Star, Another Part of the Forest, Toys in the Attics and My Mother, My Father, and Me.
1970 - Recipient of the National Book Award for Arts and Letters for An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir.
1973-1976 - Wrote the memoirs Pentimento and Scoundrel Time.
1984 - Died from heart failure on June 30th in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
1922 - Attended New York University.
1925 - Married to Arthur Kober.
- Received her B.A. from Columbia University.
1934-1939 - She wrote the plays The Children's Hour, Dark Angel, These Three, Dead End and Little Foxes.
1940 - Received her M.A. from Tufts University.
- Wrote the play Watch on the Rhine.
1943-1963 - Wrote the the plays The North Star, Another Part of the Forest, Toys in the Attics and My Mother, My Father, and Me.
1970 - Recipient of the National Book Award for Arts and Letters for An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir.
1973-1976 - Wrote the memoirs Pentimento and Scoundrel Time.
1984 - Died from heart failure on June 30th in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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- "We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
- "People change and forget to tell eachother."
- "If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
- "Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier."
- "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
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