MY MOTHER, MYSELF- AND LILLIAN HELLMAN In toppling her icon, a writer discovers that her mom was the real hero

The Boston Globe | December 16, 1998| | Copyright

MARSHFIELD -- When Rosemary Mahoney was 17, in the summer of 1978, she worked as housekeeper and cook for the writer Lillian Hellman, whom she had admired for "her bravery, her strength, and her intelligence."

But, she says now, "what I thought I saw in her, I already had in my mother."

Mahoney, now 37 and a writer herself, has written a memoir of that summer on Martha's Vineyard, "A Likely Story," published last month by Doubleday. But, reflecting the fact that it is her mother who possessed those qualities of bravery, strength, and intelligence, "A Likely Story" became, in large part, an ...

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