Tennessee Williams - Letters to Donald Windham

The first collected letters by Tennessee Williams to be published

And they are superb - rich in anecdote and gossip, spirited and uninhibited in tone, displaying in their rushing, conversational style a young playwright avid for life

Williams was twenty-eight when he met the nineteen year old Windham and they decided to collaborate on a play

Most of the letters are from the years 1940 to 1951, when the two writers were still passing from obscurity to success when, as Williams says in a late letter, "the world demanded less and the heart gave more"

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