Memoirs, 9780141189291
Paperback
Scandalous playwright’s life: love, loss, addiction, and legendary friends revealed.

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    5 December 2007

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Summary

Tennessee Williams: A Memoir of Fame, Love, and Scandal

Memoirs is a captivating journey through the life of Tennessee Williams, populated by his extraordinary friends from the realms of stage, screen, and literature. With wit, affection, and occasional sharpness, he recalls icons like Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Carson McCullers, Anna Magnani, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Tallulah Bankhead.

Originally published in 1975, Memoirs …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141189291
ISBN-10:0141189290
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
Author:Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale, John Waters
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:5 December 2007
Weight:270g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 21mm
About The Author

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays are The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

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