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{{Short description|2014 book by Dorothy Gallagher}}
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{{Infobox book <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life
| image = Lillian Hellman An Imperious Life.jpg
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| editor = Dorothy Gallagher
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| language = English
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| published = 2014 ([[Yale University Press]])
| media_type = Print (
| pages = 224
| isbn = 9780300164978
| oclc = 865109879
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'''''Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life''''' is a 2014 book by Dorothy Gallagher. It is a critical biography of the American
==Reception==
Other reviews were less critical, with ''[[Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries|Choice]]'' writing " Drawing on four full-scale biographies as well as Hellman's three memoirs, this is a concise and useful overview of a tumultuous life. .. Highly recommended." and ''[[Booklist]]'' wrote "Gallagher pounces on and decisively dissects the choicest bits in Hellman's colorful and contrary life of artistic excellence and blinkered radicalism, self-mythologizing and egregious lies, creating a fast-flowing, deeply provocative portrait of a seductive, truculent, and audacious literary powerhouse."<ref name=kcls>{{cite
''Lillian Hellman'' has also been reviewed by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-300-16497-8 |title=Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life |quote=Unafraid to question
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