Joan Mellen
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Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett
Joan Mellen
In the first dual biography of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, New York Times bestselling author Joan Mellen sheds new light on two of the twentieth century’s most intriguing characters. The first biographer to draw from the Hellman-Hammett archives at the University of Texas, and with unprecedented access to their circle of friends, Mellen taps mines of fresh material to produce a groundbreaking look at these extraordinary American nonconformists, separately and together.
Cutting against the social and political grain of their day, Hellman and…
