1945, USA: The celebrated american woman writer and dramatist LILLIAN HELLMAN (1905-1984), celebrated for the plays The Children's Hour (Quelle due, 1934) and THE LITTLE FOXES (Piccole volpi, 1939). Hellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), author of the classic detective novels The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. The couple never married, as Hammett already had a wife