Lillian Hellman Page 17
Stewart, Dorothy, 17
Styron, William, 134
Swift, Kay, 90, 91
Talmud, 22, 24
Teichmann, Howard, 125
Thin Man, The (Hammett), 47, 48, 49, 52, 115
Thomas, Norman, 110–11
Three, 111, 127, 129, 137. See also “Julia” (story); Memoirs of Lillian Hellman; Pentimento; Scoundrel Time; Unfinished Woman, An
Time Magazine, 68, 83, 110
To Have and to Have Not (Hemingway), 30
Toklas, Alice B., 33–34
Toys in the Attic, 99
Trilling, Diana and Lionel, 106
Trotsky, Leon, 57, 59, 110, 131
“Tulip” manuscript (Hammett), 47
Unfinished Woman, An, 7, 55, 58, 79, 107, 120, 140. See also Memoirs of Lillian Hellman
Union of Soviet Writers, 85
University of South Alabama, 25
USSR. See Soviet Union
Vishinsky, Andrei, 57–58
Waldorf Conference for World Peace, 106
Wallace, Henry, 69–70, 82, 106
Warsaw Uprising, 87
Warshow, Robert, 24, 33
Watch on the Rhine: absence of Jewish characters in, 34–35; character of Kurt Muller in, 34–35, 60, 74, 75–76, 78–79; criticisms of, 78; Hammett on, 78; opening of, 78; success of, 49; theme of anti-Fascism in, 2, 34–35, 54–55, 78; White House performance of, 81; writing of, 35, 53, 76, 78
Weidman, Jerome, 94
Wertenbaker, Charles, 68
West, Nathanael, 67
Wexler, Milton, 93, 135
Wharton, Edith, 50
Wilder, Thornton, 32–33
Williams, Tennessee, 2, 54–55
Woollcott, Alexander, 32–33
World War I, 41–42
World War II: Hammett in, 49–50; Nazi death camps during, 33, 110, 117; and Nazi-Soviet Pact, 59, 77–78, 106; Pearl Harbor during, 54; Soviet soldiers’ atrocities against German civilians during, 122, 123; and Soviet Union, 78, 82, 83, 86–87, 122, 123; Stein and Toklas during, 33–34; Warsaw Uprising during, 87. See also “Julia” (story)
Wyler, Talli, 40, 141–42
Wyler, William, 96, 142
Young, Stanley, 55
Zilboorg, Gregory, 34, 68–69, 90–93, 95
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