... reflected in most of her plays and sometimes even inspired the whole play. For example Lillian is described as an "independent child," by Carol MacNichols in a "Dictionary of Literary Biography," (Contemporary Authors) this trait of Lillian's personality is portrayed in her story, " Run Away" which is in the book, " A writers reader". Lillian was an independent person in many ways; this is reflected ... War communism investigations during the post-war era. Lillian informed the House of Un-American Committee that she "had no intention of cutting her conscience to fit that year's fashion....

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... fiction existed in continental and American literature since at least the nineteenth century, hard-boiled fiction reached its greatest popularity during the 1920s through the 1960s. Critics point out that authors like Dashiell Hammett, who shaped the genre during this era, reinvented the crime fiction style popularized by such predecessors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allen Poe in several ... key ways. Hammett's contemporary, Raymond Chandler, comments on Hammett's contribution to the genre by saying: Hammett was one of a group () who wrote or tried to write realistic mystery fic...

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