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Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism.

She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1905 and died in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts in 1984.

Hellman's most famous plays include The Children's Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), Watch on the Rhine (1941), and The Searching Wind (1944).

She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1952.

Hellman's memoir, An Unfinished Woman, was published in 1969.

She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for The Children's Hour.

Hellman was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She is considered one of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century.