The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume I: 1920-1945 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811214452)

When first published in 2000, Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams was hailed as "indispensable" (Choice), a "carefully researched, fully documented study" (Buffalo News), and "a model edition of a significant set of letters by one of America's leading writers" (MLA citation for the biennial Morton N. Cohen Award). Now available as a paperbook, it is hoped that this volume will help a widening circle of readers appreciate that the great American playwright was also "a prodigy of the letter" (Allan JaIon, San Francisco Chronicle). Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends, and fellow artists with varying measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams's sometimes hilarious, often devious, counter-reality from truth, the letters form a virtual autobiography of the great American dramatist. Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1920-1945 includes 330 letters written to nearly seventy correspondents and chosen from a group of 900 letters collected by two leading Williams scholars: Albert J. Devlin, Professor of English at the University of Missouri, and Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita of English at the Pennsylvania State University.

Author: Albert J. Devlin,Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler,Tennessee Williams
ISBN-10: 0811214451
ISBN-13: 9780811214452
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2000
Pages: 581
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.36w x 1.34d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/18/2000 pg. 104
Booklist 10/15/2000 pg. 409
Choice 04/01/2001 pg. 1467