A Difficult Woman (75 page)

139
Martha Gellhorn to Mary McCarthy, May 29, 1981, box 259, Gellhorn file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

140
Raisa Orlova,
Memoirs
(New York: Random House, 1983), 117.

141
Martha Gellhorn to Mary McCarthy, August 30, 1980, box 259, Gellhorn file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

142
Martha Gellhorn to Mary McCarthy, May 29, 1981, box 259, Gellhorn file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

143
Mary McCarthy to Robert Silvers, February 27, 1981, box 259, Silvers file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

144
Martha Gellhorn to Mary McCarthy, May 29, 1981, box 259, Gellhorn file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

145
Stephen Spender, “Stephen Spender Replies,”
Paris Review
79 (1981): 304–7.

146
Stephen Spender,
Journals 1939–1983
, ed. John Goldsmith (New York: Random House, 1986), 482–83. On the subject of both McCarthy and Hellman lying see Timothy Dow Adams,
Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), chs. 5 and 6.

147
Mary McCarthy to Walter Goldwater, August 7, 1980, box 259, Goldwater file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

148
Mary McCarthy to Charles Collingwood, September 20, 1980, box 259, Collingwood file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

149
Martha Gellhorn to Mary McCarthy, May 29, 1981, box 259, Gellhorn file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

150
Doudna, “A Still Unfinished Woman,” 55. In an odd coincidence, Gardiner was married for many years to Joseph Buttinger, a leader of the Austrian socialists and a generous funder of Irving Howe's
Dissent
magazine. Presumably, Howe did not need another reason to dislike Hellman, but his relationship with the Buttingers surely provided one. See Irving Howe,
Margin of Hope: An Intellectual Biography
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982), 235.

151
Marilyn Berger, “Profile: Lillian Hellman,” in Breyer, ed.,
Conversations
, 238.

152
Mary McCarthy to Walter Goldwater, August 7, 1980, box 259, Goldwater file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

153
Muriel Gardiner,
Code Name “Mary”: Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian Underground
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983), xv.

154
LH to George Gero, May 4, 1983, box 77, folder 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

155
LH to George Gero, May 27, 1983, box 77, folder 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

156
LH to Ephraim London, May 27, 1983, box 77, folder 77, 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC. Anne Peretz, interview by author, August 31, 2010.

157
Alex Szogyi, “Lillian,”
Hunter College Magazine
(July 1985): 27.

158
Sam Jaffe to LH, August 12, 1980, box 78, folder 5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

159
Norman Mailer to Richard Poirier, June 16, 1980; copied to McCarthy, Locke, William Phillips, Silvers, and Steven Marcus, among others, box 78, folder 5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

160
LH to Norman Mailer, July 5, 1980, box 78, folder 5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

161
Barbara Epstein to LH, December 1, 1980, box 78, folder 5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

162
LH to Mrs. Victor Pritchett, September 14, 1981, box 132, folder 2, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

163
Robert Silvers to Mary McCarthy, March 10, 1981, box 259, Silvers File, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

164
Elizabeth Hardwick to Mary McCarthy, September 5, 1980, box 259, Hardwick folder, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

165
Bill Alfred to LH, October 8, 1980, box 78, folder 4/5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

166
LH to Bill Alfred, November 3, 1980, Papers of William Alfred, BCASC.

167
William Styron to LH, April 2, 1980; LH to William Styron, April 9, 1980, box 78, folder 4/5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

168
Cavett, “Lillian, Mary, and Me,” 36.

169
LH to Bill Alfred, November 3, 1980, Papers of William Alfred, BCASC.

170
Mary McCarthy to Ben O'Sullivan, July 13, 1982, box 259, O'Sullivan file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

171
George Trow to “Dear Lillie pie,” no date, box 78, folder 5, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

172
LH to Ephraim London, November 5, 1981, box 77, folder 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

173
Martha Gellhorn to Mary McCarthy, May 29, 1981, box 259, Gellhorn file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

174
LH to Stephen Spender, August 4, 1983, box 77, folder 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

175
Stephen Spender to LH, August 19, 1983, and September 15, 1983, box 259, Spender file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

176
Charles Collingwood to Mary McCarthy, September 26, 1980, box 259, Collingwood file, Mary McCarthy Collection, VCL.

177
Burke Marshall to LH, August 18, 1983, box 77, folder 7, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

178
Marcia Chambers, “Lillian Hellman Wins Round in Suit,”
New York Times
(May 11, 1984): C3.

179
Deposition of Defendant Mary McCarthy West, 42–43.

180
Chambers, “Lillian Hellman Wins,” C3.

1
Hellman diaries, box 115, “California, 1980, Feb 1–March” folder, Lillian Hellman Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

2
Kristin von Kreisler-Bomben, “Lillian Hellman: from Sickbed to Center Stage,”
San Rafael Independent
(February 25, 1980): 1.

3
Lillian Hellman,
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1978), 724–26

4
Kay Boyle to Jessica Mitford, February 24, 1980; and Kay Boyle to William Abrahams, February 24, 1980, both in box 17:1, William Miller Abrahams
Papers, M1125, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

5
Annabel Davis-Goff, interview by author, September 2, 2010.

6
Robin to Rita Wade, January 27, 1982; Maryellen to Rita, January 14, 1983; box 47:10, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

7
Robert Brustein, “Epilogue to Anger: Lillian Hellman's” (August 13, 1984): 23.

8
Peter Feibleman, funeral speech, “Lillian Hellman, 1905–1984,” box 5, folder 12, Arthur Thornhill Collection, Seeley Mudd Library, Princeton University.

9
Robert Brustein, “Epilogue to Anger,” 23.

10
John Hersey, funeral speech, “Lillian Hellman, 1905–1984,” box 5, folder 12, Arthur Thornhill Collection, SML.

11
Rose Styron, interview by author, August 17, 2010.

12
William Styron, funeral speech, in “Lillian Hellman, 1905–1984,” box 5, folder 12, Arthur Thornhill Collection, SML.

13
Ibid.

14
Alex Szogyi, “Lillian,”
Hunter College Magazine
(July 1985): 27.

15
Helen Dudar, “Shaping a Portrait of a Playwright,”
New York Times
(January 24, 1986): Arts Section, 1.

16
Zoe Caldwell, interview by author, September 24, 2010.

17
Undated and unnamed lists, box 47, folder 10; Maryellen to Rita Wade, January 14, 1983, box 47, folder 10, Lillian Hellman Collection, HRC.

18
Patricia Neal, funeral speech, “Lillian Hellman, 1905–1984,” box 5, folder 12, Arthur Thornhill Collection, SML.

19
William Styron, funeral speech.

20
Peter Feibleman, funeral speech.

21
Leo O'Neill to William Abrahams, June 25, 1984, box 71, folder 6, William Miller Abrahams Papers, SUL.

22
Warren Fugitt to William Abrahams, June 27, 1984, box 71:6, William Miller Abrahams Papers, SUL.

23
Walter Sheldon to William Abrahams, June 25, 1984, box 71, folder 6, William Miller Abrahams Papers, SLU.

24
Samuel McCracken, “‘Julia' and Other Fictions by Lillian Hellman,”
Commentary
(June 1984): 35–43.

25
Christopher Hitchens, “American Notes,”
Times Literary Suplement
(July 6, 1984): 754.

26
Richard Bernstein, “Critics Notebook: An Unfinished Reputation: Reassessing Lillian Hellman,”
New York Times
(November 12, 1998): sec. E, 2.

27
Herbie French to Sidney Hook, July 1, 1984, box 174, folder 17, Sidney Hook Collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.

28
See, for example, Ralph Melnick,
The Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank: Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman and the Staging of the Diary
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 34; Frances Kiernan, “New York Observed; In the Court of Memory,”
New York Times
(November 24, 2002). See also George Shadroui, “Are the National Book Awards Biased in Favor of Liberals?” Front Page Mag.com (March 5, 2004), which simply attaches the adjective
communist
to Hellman's name.

29
A 2011 production of the story of Meyer Levin and
The Diary of Anne Frank
makes exactly this point. See Rinne Groff,
Compulsion
, mounted at the Public Theater, New York, February 17, 2011.

30
Carl Rollyson, “The Lives and Lies of Lillian Hellman,”
New York Sun
(November 25, 2005): 5.

31
“Last Will and Testament of Lillian Hellman,” 13, provided by Peter Stansky.

32
Michael Davies, “The Life and Lies of Lillian Hellman,”
Observer
(October 26, 1986): 64.

33
William F. Buckley Jr., “Viewpoints,”
Dallas Morning News
(October 19, 1992): 17A.

34
Elia Kazan,
Elia Kazan: A Life
(New York: Knopf, 1988), 460

35
William Wright, “Stage View,”
New York Times
(November 3, 1996): sec H, 9.

36
Phyllis Jacobson, “Two Invented Lives: Hellman and Hammett by Joan Mellen,”
New Politics
6 (Summer 1997).

37
Kazan,
A Life
, 462.

38
Wright, “Stage View.”

39
Kazan,
A Life
, 324–25.

40
Ibid., 382.

41
Stanley Hart, “Lillian Hellman and Others,”
Sewanee Review
107 (Summer 1999): 402.

42
William E. Sarmento, “ ‘Lillian' Is a Tour de force,”
Lowell Sun
(January 31, 1986): 4.

43
Kazan,
A Life
, 382.

44
Zoe Caldwell, interview by author, September 24, 2010.

45
Letters (October 29, 1985, November 11, 1985, February 19, 1986, October 30, 1986) from the private collection of Zoe Caldwell Whitehead; names withheld.

46
David Kaufman, “What Became a Legend Most?”
Chronicles
(April 1986): 46.

47
Sarmento, “ ‘Lillian' Is a Tour De force,” 4.

48
Kaufman, “What Became a Legend Most?” 46.

49
Richard Dodds, “Hellman Wrote All the Rules for ‘Lillian,' “
New Orleans Times Picayune
(February 21, 1997): L21.

50
Gregory Speck, “Lillian Hellman's Notoriety Well Reflected in Play,”
New York City Tribune
(January 28, 1986): 5.

51
Frank Rich, “The Stage: Zoe Caldwell as Hellman in ‘Lillian,' “
New York Times
(January 17, 1986): sec. C, 3.

52
Davies, “The Life and Lies of Lillian Hellman,” 64.

53
Gordon Osmond, “A
Curtain Up
California Review:
Imaginary Friends
,”
http://curtainup.com/imaginaryfriends.com
.

54
Ben Brantley, “Literary Lions, Claws Bared,”
New York Times
(December 13, 2002).

55
Bernstein, “Critics Notebook.”

56
Rollyson, “The Lives and Lies of Lillian Hellman,” 5.