An Unfinished Woman Unabridged Audio Author:Lillian Hellman This autobiography took 1969's National Book Award for biography, and it's easy to see why. It's not just that Hellman hobnobbed with all the leading literary lights of her age - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Dorothy Parker, John Hersey, and her lover, Dashiell Hammett - but that she approached life's skirmishes with mettle and acid ... more »wit. She had good cause for her cynicism: as a WW II European cultural attache, she saw plenty of the war's ignominies, but also ethical action. Her musings on the racial tensions of her Louisiana childhood, her father's infidelity, her failed marriage, and her early communist sympathies suggest the searing heartaches and determined idealism that led her to write such groundbreaking plays as THE CHILDREN'S HOUR and THE LITTLE FOXES.« less