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Book Review;The life of LillianHellman;Profile in courage 书评;丽莲海尔曼的生活;勇气的轮廓; Lillian Hellman, a popular playwright andbestselling author, was a minor player in Americanintellectual circles. So why is she still such adivisive figure? 丽莲海尔曼，一个有名的剧作家和畅销书作者，曾今是美国知识分子圈中的一个小角色。但是为什么时至今日，她还是一个如此备受争议的人物? A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Timesof Lillian Hellman. By Alice Kessler-Harris. 《一个难对付的女人：莉莲赫尔曼充满挑战的一生和她的时代》，阿丽丝凯斯勒哈里斯著。 Lillian Hellman knew how to tell a good story, and she liked to spin her own. So shedestroyed old letters, suppressed records and hushed friends. She replaced harddocumentation with soulful reminiscences of a Jewish childhood in New Orleans, of comingof age during the Depression and of defending her leftist ideals amid the hysteria of the coldwar. Flinty yet glamorous, she was blacklisted in the 1950s because she would not confessto a crime of disloyalty she felt she never committed. In memoirs and anecdotes, Hellmanpresented herself as she wished to be rememberedthe courageous and upright heroineof her own playand tried to destroy or quash everything else. | 
