num_pages: 245
description: In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award--winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award--winning film Julia."Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) is best known as the author of the plays The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Another Part of the Forest, The Autumn Garden, and Toys in the Attic. She also wrote three volumes of An Unfinished Woman, for which she received the National Book Award in 1969, Pentimento, and Scoundrel Time.Wendy Wasserstein is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright whose works include An American Daughter, The Sisters Rosenzweig,The Heidi Chronicles, Isn't It Romantic, and Uncommon Women and Others.
language: English
title: Pentimento
titlecomplete: Pentimento
genres: Memoir, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Womens, Biography Memoir, Biography, Essays, History, Female Authors
ratings_count: 2731
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: Signet