Includes bibliographical references (p. 287) and index.

On Lillian Hellman: the legacy ; Biography of Lillian Hellman / Carl Rollyson -- The Paris Review perspective / Anna Hartford for The Paris Review -- Lillian Hellman and the art of the play ; The formation of Lillian Hellman: radical, celebrity, and mythologizer / Bernard F. Dick -- Hellman and Williams: the critical connection ; Lillian Hellman: the critical reception / Geraldine Thorsten -- "Good and evil" in Lillian Hellman's The children's hour / Philip M. Armato -- Breeding (and) reading: lesbian knowledge, eugenic discipline, and The children's hour / Mikko Tuhkanen -- The lesbian vanishes: These three -- Lillian' Hellman's adaptation of The children's hour (1936) / Brett Elizabeth Westbrook -- "These three": the influence of William Wyler and Gregg Toland on Lillian Hellman / Richard Hayes -- Second chances: the remake of Lillian Hellman's The children's hour / Brett Elizabeth Westbrook -- Lillian Hellman's The little foxes and the new south creed: an ironic view of southern history / Ritchie D. Watson, Jr. -- Gentlemen's games & witches' brews: Lillian Hellman's Another part of the forest and the emergence of the Cold War culture / Randall Fallows -- Another part of the country: Lillian Hellman as southern playwright / W. Kenneth Holditch -- Miss Hellman's two sisters / Jacob H. Adler -- "Julia": memory in Pentimento and on film / Marsha McCreadie -- "Julia" and Julia's son / Edward Gillin -- Scoundrel time: mobilizing the American intelligentsia for the Cold War / Richard A. Falk.