In this friendly if far from uncritical biography, Alice Kessler-Harris focuses on Lillian Hellman as a woman both of her time and ahead of her time. She was ?a woman among men? who ?became the economically successful playwright and celebrity she was by blurring gender boundaries.? Born in 1905 in New Orleans, she ?reached beyond southern tradition and turned into a misfit, becoming in the eyes of all around her a difficult woman.? Her life tells us ?how complicated it must have been for a woman in the deepest part of the twentieth century to stay true to her desires even as she juggled the pressures of the world around her.? Nearly seven decades after her birth, participating in a panel discussion about the ?condition of woman today,? she ?could not fully identify with the modern version of women?s liberation? but insisted on going her own way:
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