In a play by this author, a woman tells her son-in-law “I guess most of us make up things we want, don’t get them, and get too old, or too lazy to make up new ones.” In another play by this author, General Griggs laments that he’s “frittered [himself] away” in a monologue on the futility of waiting for “that big hour of decision.” Sophie blackmails Nina for five thousand dollars after Nina’s drunk husband Nick Denery passes out in her bed in a play by this author that is set in Constance Tuckerman’s summer home. During the 1950s, this author wrote the original libretto for Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. This author’s aunts Jenny and Hannah inspired the characters Anna and Carrie, who unexpectedly reject money offered by their returning brother Julian. For 10 points, name this American writer who collaborated with her husband Dashiell Hammett on The Autumn Garden and wrote Toys in the Attic. ■END■
ANSWER: Lillian Hellman [or Lillian Florence Hellman]
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