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...Lillian Hellman, another guest dramatist, first established herself as a major force in American theatre with The Children's Hour -a psychological drama dealing with lesbianism-that shocked audiences when it first opened in 1934. Later, she wrote The Little Foxes, and Toys in the Attic (1960), and was last year the recipient of the National Book Award...
Among those books nominated in the Arts and Letters category were Gore Vidal's Reflections on a Sinking Ship, Richard Howard's Alone with America, and Lillian Hellman's An Unfinished Woman...
WHILE Soviet authorities threatened Alexander Solzhenitsyn with exile, Anatoly Kuznetsov, a voluntary defector to Britain, was facing criticism from fellow authors in the West. In the U.S., Playwright Lillian Hellman has accused Kuznetsov of cowardice for waiting until he was abroad before protesting against Soviet censorship. Novelist William Styron has reproached Kuznetsov for not remaining silent after his defection. Kuznetsov's own publisher in Britain observed that "decisions taken in states of emotion are generally the wrong ones." Kuznetsov replied to one of his critics that his old apartment in the city of Tula was now vacant...
...dated but still pertinent case in point is Lillian Hellman, who signed a statement in the Daily Worker supporting the 1938 Great Purge trials in Moscow. The trials brought about the execution of Russia's greatest writers, together with millions of other innocent Soviet people...
...Unfinished Woman, Hellman...