by Lillian Hellman · Bantam books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553102826
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«Scoundrel Time» is Lillian Hellman's memoir, published by Bantam Books in paperback (150 pages, in English).
Hellman recalls her 1952 appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee and her refusal to incriminate herself or inform on others, at considerable personal cost. The account includes her partner Dashiell Hammett, famous friends and colleagues, and the «scoundrels»: politicians and accomplices of the witch hunt.
This 1977 edition includes an introduction by Garry Wills.
For readers interested in US political history, McCarthyism, and memoirs.
Lillian Florence Hellman was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist, and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway as well as her communist views and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the U.S. film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer HUAC's questions, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party.
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