Tennessee Williams: Memoirs - Hardcover

Williams, Tennessee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385005733 ISBN 13: 9780385005739

Publisher: Doubleday, 1975

Synopsis

The distinguished American playwright offers a candid review of his life and career, commenting on family, friends, and lovers and on the people and events that directly influenced his plays

About this title

About the Author:

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0385005733
• ISBN 13: 9780385005739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1