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The Kindness Of Strangers: The Life Of Tennessee Williams

The Kindness Of Strangers: The Life Of Tennessee Williams Paperback - 1997

by Spoto, Donald

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In this first complete, critical biography of one of America's finest playwrights, Donald Spoto reveals the intimate connections between Williams' personal dramas and his remarkably autobiographical art. From his birth into a genteel Southern family, through his success, celebrity, and wealth, Tennessee Williams lived a life as gripping as his plays. "The Kindness of Strangers" is "a work of honest reverence".--"San Francisco Chronicle". 34 photos.

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  • Title The Kindness Of Strangers: The Life Of Tennessee Williams
  • Author Spoto, Donald
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
  • Date 1997-08-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR008282658
  • ISBN 9780306808050 / 0306808056
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.1 x 1.07 in (22.96 x 15.49 x 2.72 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Library of Congress subjects Williams, Tennessee, Dramatists, American - 20th century -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97008428
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and the Night of the Iguana. Award-winning biographer Donald Spoto gives us not only a full and accurate account of Williams's life; he also reveals the intimate connections between the playwright's personal dramas and his remarkably autobiographical art. From his birth into a genteel Southern family, through his success, celebrity, and wealth, to his drug addictions, promiscuity, and creative struggles, Tennessee Williams lived a life as gripping as his plays. The Kindness of Strangers, based on Williams's own papers, his mother's diaries, and interviews with scores of friends, lovers, and professional associates, is, in the author's words, a portrait of "a man more disturbing, more dramatic, richer and more wonderful than any character he created".

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 09/01/1998, Page 224

About the author

Donald Spoto is the author of many books, among them internationally best-selling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Ingrid Bergman. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.