Title: Lillian and Dash
Description: Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple, and their individual passions, projects, and literary creations. Hammett and Hellman's relationship evolves during major artistic and political epochs--Hollywood's heyday, the New York literary scene, the Spanish Civil War, McCarthyism, and both world wars--and each movement is captured with subjectivity and credible insight. Populated with writers, drinkers, filmmakers, and revolutionaries, Lillian and Dash chronicles the unusual affair of two prominent and headstrong figures.
Subjects: Blacklisting of entertainers, American Dramatists, American Authors, Fiction, Motion picture industry, Blacklisting of authors, Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch
Places: United States, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
People: Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
Time periods: 20th century