Tania Head’s dramatic and unsubstantiated tale of surviving the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center brings to mind Lillian Hellman’s self-proclaimed heroism against the Nazis. “Whether from Lillian Hellman’s pen or Tania Head’s mouth, in Europe during World War II or Lower Manhattan in 2001, the mythic power of the stories was the same. Love had given Hellman and Ms. Head the strength to transcend terrors. The similarities do not end there. Neither story has any verifiable link to reality.”