My friend Tom
Subtitle: the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams
By: William Jay Smith ; foreword by Suzanne Marrs
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781617031755; 9781617031762
Subjects: Friends and associates; Criticism and interpretation
Description: A close friend of Tennessee Williams during his early years as a writer gives an account of the literary great's early career, critiques his work, and reflects on the later, more successful time of Williams' life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Lanier Williams, Washington University: St. Louis, 1935 1940; title: Battle of angels: Boston, 1940; title: The glass menagerie: New York, 1946; title: The poet, lyric and dramatic; title: A streetcar named desire: New York, 1947; title: Williams and Frank Merlo: Florence, 1949; title: With Williams at a performance of America hurrah by Jean- Claude van Itallie: New York, 1966; title: Reading of Williams at Lynchburg College: Virginia, 1979; title: Clothes for a summer hotel: New York, March 26, 1980; title: Award of Medal of Freedom to Williams by President Carter: The White House, June 9, 1980; title: Death of Tennessee Williams: New York, February 24, 1983.