Ephron, Nora, Scribble, Scribble: Notes on the Media, Knopf, 1978.

Ephron collected here her hysterical columns and articles previously published in magazines like Esquire and New York.

Gelderman, Carol, ed., Conversations with Mary McCarthy, University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

McCarthy discusses her life and work in a series of interviews.

Griffin, Alice, and Geraldine Thorsten, Understanding Lillian Hellman, Understanding Contemporary American Literature series, University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

Griffin and Thorsten place Hellman's work into a historical context.

Grumbach, Doris, The Company She Kept: A Revealing Portrait of Mary McCarthy, Coward-McCann, 1967.

Grumbach presents an intriguing account of McCarthy's life and relationships.

Hellman, Lillian, Conversations with Lillian Hellman, edited by Jackson Bryer, Literary Conversations series, University Press of Mississippi, 1986.

Hellman sheds light on her writing process and the themes of her plays.

Podhoretz, Norman, Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and...