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The kindness of strangers : the life of Tennessee Williams
- Title
- The kindness of strangers : the life of Tennessee Williams / by Donald Spoto.
- Author
- Spoto, Donald, 1941-
- Publication
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3545.I5365 Z836 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 409 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and the Night of the Iguana.
- Award-winning biographer Donald Spoto gives us not only a full and accurate account of Williams's life; he also reveals the intimate connections between the playwright's personal dramas and his remarkably autobiographical art. From his birth into a genteel Southern family, through his success, celebrity, and wealth, to his drug addictions, promiscuity, and creative struggles, Tennessee Williams lived a life as gripping as his plays.
- The Kindness of Strangers, based on Williams's own papers, his mother's diaries, and interviews with scores of friends, lovers, and professional associates, is, in the author's words, a portrait of "a man more disturbing, more dramatic, richer and more wonderful than any character he created."
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1985.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-388) and index.
- ISBN
- 0306808056 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97008428
- OCLC
- 36647819
- ocm36647819
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries