500 Great Books By Women discussion

Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento and Scoundrel Time, Lillian Hellman, 1969/1973/1976 [(1979)], United States, MEMOIR

"...In 1969, Lillian Hellman published the first of three separate collections of her intensely personal, passionate, and painful memoirs, in which she describes her extraordinary life, including her thirty-year love affair with Dashiell Hammett, her close friendship with Dorothy Parker, her blacklisting during the McCarthy era, and her refusal to name other people before the House Un-American Activities Committee: "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."..."

(S.S., p. 30)