The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams - Volume I - 1920-1945

Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends and fellow artists with varying measures of piety, wit and astute self-knowledge

No other modern playwright has achieved such worldwide popularity

Few other playwrights have such a grasp of what passions and fears lie trapped in the ordinary human heart

These 330 letters, presented with a running commentary to separate Williams' sometimes hilarious, often devious, counter-reality from truth, form a virtual autobiography of the great American dramatist

'Tennessee was a splendidly indiscreet letter-writer, and as we watch the young T. L. Williams metamorphose into Tenessee Williams in these pages, it becomes clear that his is the most distinctive, humorous, American voice since Mark Twain' ~ Gore Vidal