The scandalous Lillian Hellman
She was the first woman to be admitted to the club of American dramatists, writing a hit play when she was 29. Her love affair with Dashiell Hammett was a scandal and her memoirs were notoriously unreliable. As The Children's Hour opens in London tonight, Sarah Churchwell sorts the good from the bad in Lillian HellmanA new production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour opens tonight; it is attracting predic…