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