Lillian Hellman was born in 1905 in New Orleans, Louisiana to German-American Jewish parents, Max and Julia Hellman. When her father's shoe business failed in 1911, the family moved to New York, and Lillian would divide her time between New York and New Orleans for the rest of her childhood, giving her a deep, complex, and fractured sense of multiple cultures. She studied briefly at both New York University and Barnard College, though she graduated from neither. After this schooling, she worked at several literary jobs, including at the publishing house Boni and Liveright. In 1925, she married Arthur Kober, with whom she moved to Hollywood in 1931. He worked as a screenwriter, and she...
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