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
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