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BORN: Feb. 21, 1940, Troy, Ala. EDUCATION: American Baptist Theological Seminary, B.A., 1961; Fisk U, B.A., 1963 FAMILY: Wife, Lillian; one child RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Civil-rights activist political career: Atlanta city council, 1982-86; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2323, Atlanta...
...Quincy: Grimmelmann, Daniel S. Quint '97, Ali Ahsan '98, Christopher Minchberg '99, Josh Derman '99, Michael A. O'Mary '99; Winthrop: Hollis C. Waite '98, Jonathan J. Finer '98, Terry-Ann M. Burrell '99, Jason L. Perri '98, Jaime K. Chambron '99; Canaday-Union: Thomas P. Windom '00, Lillian J. Epstein '00, Noah Z. Seton '00, Maneesh R. Amancharla '00, Raqeeb M. Haque '00, Kathryn M. Hayes '00; North Yard: Brian J. Rosenthal '00, Beth A. Stewart '00, Samuel C. Cohen '00, Justin M. Krebs '00, John Paul Rollert '00, C.J. Mahoney '00; Southeast Yard: Kathleen E. Campbell '00, Chris...
...time Lillian Hellman died, 12 years ago, she had done all that was humanly possible to shore up the public image she had laboriously fashioned for herself. Biographical details had been eliminated, anecdotes shellacked, letters burned--many of them after she had extracted them from their recipients. As America's most prominent woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes) and the author of various memoirs (Pentimento, Scoundrel Time), Hellman wanted the record closed, and on her terms...
...could tell a story. One of the first concerned a black woman named Sophronia, who worked for the family briefly during Hellman's babyhood, but was transformed into the main nurturing figure of her life. Later, says Mellen, "an enlarged photograph of Sophronia holding a tiny, impish Lillian was to adorn the drawing rooms of Hellman's mature life...
...Mary McCarthy for calling her a liar on TV. Though the suit died with the antagonists, it gave publicity to the fabrications in Pentimento and Scoundrel Time. From the former comes the story Julia, which casts Hellman as a heroic anti-Nazi in World War II. Jane Fonda played Lillian in the movie (Vanessa Redgrave was Julia). None of the yarn was true, but the author stubbornly maintained its veracity...