Open Document Context/ author biography Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911. He was born Thomas Lanier Williams III, but got the nickname Tennessee in college because his classmates called him that because of his Southern accent. Characters: ...
Tennessee Williams. Writer: A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams met long-term partner Frank Merlo in the summer of 1948 (Merlo died of lung cancer in the fall of 1963). Though separated briefly in 1961 and again in 1962, the two were partners fo
worked for two years for a shoe company, spent a year at Washington University (where he had his first plays produced), and earned a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of Iowa in 1938, the year he published his first short story under his literary name, Tennessee Williams....
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” In March, the play was transferred to Broadway, which was then awarded the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Donaldson Award. It was then published in book format by Random House that summer. Williams was inundated by a “catastrophe of success,” and traveled to Mexico and...
A 2014 Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind...
About this book This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it. ...
There may never be a better biography of Tennessee Williams than the one he inadvertently wrote in his letters. —David Cuthbert,The Times-Picayune These letters present a self-portrait of a brave man, harassed by his demons, yet always – in those days, with riveting power – trying to be...
However, Williams’ other works such as Camino Real, A Street Car Named Desire and “…The Glass Menagerie opened on Broadway…” put his name out in the world of drama (Biography.com Editors, 2015). Born as Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911, he was raised in Mississippi mostly by his ...
Tennessee Williams 作者: Dakin Williams / Shepherd Mead 出版社: Arbor House副标题: An Intimate Biography出版年: 1983-1-20页数: 352定价: USD 19.95装帧: HardcoverISBN: 9780877954880豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 ...