![]() With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life-his fierce, belittling father Cornelius his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin-Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. ![]() This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. ![]() John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography CategoryĢ015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre BiographyĪmerican Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. ![]()
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