A Difficult Woman by Alice Kessler-Harris Read Free Book Online

York: Knopf, 1978); Diana Trilling,
We Must March, My Darlings: A Critical Decade
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978); Norman Podhoretz,
Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
(New York, NY: Free Press, 1999); and Muriel Gardiner,
Code Name “Mary”: Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian Underground
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983).

A Note on the Author
    Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University. She is one of America’s most renowned scholars, known for her work on labor and gender history. She is the author of the classic history of working women
Out to Work
. Her
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
won the Joan Kelly, Philip Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Bancroft prizes. In 2011–2012, she served as president of the Organization of American Historians.

By the Same Author
    Gendering Labor History
    In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
    A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences
    Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
    Women Have Always Worked: An Historical Overview

Copyright © 2012 by Alice Kessler-Harris
    Electronic edition published in April 2012
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    Kessler-Harris, Alice.
A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of
Lillian Hellman / Alice Kessler-Harris.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ebook: 978-1-60819-379-0
1. Hellman, Lillian, 1905–1984. 2. Dramatists, American—20th century—
Biography. 3. Hellman, Lillian, 1905–1984—Political and social views. I. Title.
PS3515.E343Z74 2012
812’.52—dc22
[B]
2011028065
    First U.S. edition 2012
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