The World of Tennessee Williams - Revised and Updated

The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America's greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983

Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee's and followed his career closely

Kenneth Holditch, who has undertaken the task of completing the text, was a friend of Leavitt's and knew Tennessee Williams

It was his desire to carry to fruition the original plan Richard Leavitt conceived in the 1970s and augmented in 1983 when Williams died