CSPAN2 Book TV June 2, 2012
and i start by the, with the why bother question for the following reason. there have been several biographies of lillian hellman. she was, after all, the most famous 20th century female playwright for many years until the 1970s when female playwrights began coming out of the wood work. and as such she was a figure to be reckoned with. she was a celebrity in her own right. in addition to being a playwright, she became a screenwriter, and she was responsible for films like "dead end kids" of the 1930s, "the chase" of the 1950s, films you might have heard about. but she's still most fa...