The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin

by James Laughlin and Tennessee Williams

Book Overview

In December 1942, two guests at a Lincoln Kirstein mixer bonded over their shared love of Hart Crane's poetry. One of them was James Laughlin, the founder of a small publishing company called New Directions, which he had begun only seven years earlier as a sophomore at Harvard. The other was a young playwright named Thomas Lanier Williams, or "Tennessee," as he had just started to call himself. A little more than a week after that first encounter,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393246205
• ISBN13: 9780393246209
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"