What happened to Lillian Hellman?
What happened to Lillian Hellman?
Hellman died on June 30, 1984, aged 79, from a heart attack near her home on Martha’s Vineyard and is buried beneath a pine tree on a rise at one end of Abels Hill/Chilmark Cemetery, Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
What is pentimento in literature?
The word is Italian for ‘repentance’, from the verb pentirsi, meaning ‘to repent’.
Did Lillian Hellman have children?
While her partner, Dashiell Hammett, famed detective novelist, had two children, neither of them were with her, nor did she act as a mother to either of them, since they lived with their own mother.