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Yale University Press
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Featuring: Tennessee Williams
856 pages
ISBN: 0300116829
EAN: 9780300116823
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Memoir
Tennessee Williams's Notebooks, here published for
the first time, presents by turns a passionate, whimsical,
movingly lyrical, self-reflective, and completely
uninhibited record of the life of this monumental American
genius from 1936 to 1981, the year of his death. In these
pages Williams (1911-1981) wrote out his most private
thoughts as well as sketches of plays, poems, and accounts
of his social, professional, and sexual encounters. The
notebooks are the repository of Williams's fears,
obsessions, passions, and contradictions, and they form
possibly the most spontaneous self-portrait by any writer in
American history.
Meticulously edited and annotated by Margaret Thornton,
the notebooks follow Williams' growth as a writer from his
undergraduate days to the publication and production of his
most famous plays, from his drug addiction and drunkenness
to the heights of his literary accomplishments. At one
point, Williams writes, "I feel dull and disinterested in
the literary line. Dr. Heller bores me with all his erudite
discussion of literature. Writing is just writing!
Why all the fuss about it?" This remarkable record of the
life of Tennessee Williams is about writing--how his writing
came up like a pure, underground stream through the often
unhappy chaos of his life to become a memorable and
permanent contribution to world literature.
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