Lillian: The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes, Pentimento: A Book of Portraits
Dashiell: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, The Continental Op
20th century greats, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, authors of…
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Lillian and Dashiell, writers who were so fascinating that not merely their works but their *lives* were the inspiration for pictures. (Unrelated aside: they don’t *look* much like Nick and Nora do they?!)
Not by half! But then, Nick and Nora may not have looked much like Nick and Nora – out of makeup…
Touche!
Chandler and Hammett.Now you are really spoiling me.
Now, if I find out you named your daughters Chandler and Hammett we will have words 😉
Dearest V
More (then) living proof that writers have the most interesting and lived in faces of almost any species of artist.
In this sense of course WH Auden was essence of writer as artist.
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
Faces lined by experience – I see it.
Vickie,now, now.My daughters are named Alayla and Misha.
Beautiful, lyrical, names! I am very relieved 😉