The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume II; 1945-1957

by Albert J. Devlin and Tennessee Williams

Book Overview

Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams ends with the unexpected triumph of The Glass Menagerie. Volume II extends the correspondence from 1946 to 1957, a time of intense creativity which saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Following the immense success of Streetcar, Williams struggles to retain his prominence with a prodigious outpouring...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216004
• ISBN13: 9780811216005
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 2.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A must have for Tennessee Williams fans

These letters of Tennessee Williams offer a rare insight into the private life of Tennessee Williams.

Covers the Most Productive Years of his Life

This is the second volume of correspondence of Tennessee Williams covering the most productive middle years of his life. It includes letters to and from friends during what was his most productive time. This when he was writing some of his best works, and the letters reflect the difficulties he was having with the work in process. These letters end in 1957 when he had just had two failed plays and the ever present critics were predicting the end of his career. The book also includes a running commentary on the letters to keep them in perspective to the actuall happenings in his life. As a result, they form a sort of autobiography of the great dramatist.