Nancy Gish wrote:
> 
> [CLIP]
> Kate Troy wrote:  In her Memoirs, Lillian Hellman 
> recalled her life and related a story
> about herself and a good friends of hers 
> named Julia.  It's been alleged that this
> whole episode was a complete fiction.  Was it 
> or was it not?  Does anyone know.

I can't answer your question, but Mary McCarthy once claimed that every
word in one piece of Hellman's writing was a lie, including "the," "a"
and "an." I personally have no basis for either accepting or rejecting
that claim.

Carrol