The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume I: 1920-1945

by Tennessee Williams, Nancy M. Tischler, Albert J. Devlin

Book Overview

Winner of the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters, Modern Language Association, 2001. When first published in 2000, Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811214451
• ISBN13: 9780811214452
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 581 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A must have for Tennessee Williams fans

These letters of Tennessee Williams offer a rare insight into the private life of Tennessee Williams.

A must for fans of Tennessee Williams

I have everything that Tennessee Williams ever published, so I am biased. This is yet another intimate look into the private life of this legendary playwright.

Covers the Most Productive Years of his Life

This is the second volume of correspondence of Tennessee Williams covering the most productive middle years of his life. It includes letters to and from friends during what was his most productive time. This when he was writing some of his best works, and the letters reflect the difficulties he was having with the work in process. These letters end in 1957 when he had just had two failed plays and the ever present critics were predicting the end of his career. The book also includes a running commentary on the letters to keep them in perspective to the actuall happenings in his life. As a result, they form a sort of autobiography of the great dramatist.