From AwardAnnals
Results of the National Book Award in the year 1970. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
Lillian Hellman
Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can “take the tops off bottles with her teeth”. Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with
The Children’s Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself.
An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world—and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own.
