Tennessee Williams and the South - Softcover

Kenneth Holditch; Richard Freeman Leavitt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604734655 ISBN 13: 9781604734652

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2009

Synopsis

Tennessee Williams and the South Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) remarked on several occasions that the farther south one went in America, the more congenial life became. Though he sojourned elsewhere, he embraced the South, the region of his birth, as his creative homeland. Few writers have been more closely connected with it than hebining his words with photographs, this biographical album reveals Williams's closeness with the American South, and especially with his beloved New Orleans. Williams was born in Mississippi and lived there with his family until he was seven. Thomas Lanier Williams, who became "Tennessee," absorbed much of his creative material from this Mississippi home pla...

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth Holditch is professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans, the editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal, and the coeditor (with Mel Gussow) of the Library of America edition of Williams's works.

|Richard Freeman Leavitt (1929-2003) was the editor and compiler of The World of Tennessee Williams and the compiler of the photographs and the genealogical chart for Lyle Leverich's Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams.

From the Inside Flap:

Words and pictures that show the South's imprint on the life and works of the great playwright

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1604734655
• ISBN 13: 9781604734652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128