Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams

London: Oberon Books. Very Good/Very Good. 2001. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 1840022264 Dust jacket unclipped. Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 581 pages clean and tight. Tennessee Williams's innovative approach and natural lyricism transformed the American stage after World War II. Both his major and minor works continue to be read and performed worldwide at the same time that his earliest, and previously unproduced, plays recall the origins of his distinguished career and make audiences remember what theatrical excitement is all about. To this record is now added the first volume of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams. Williams's youthful correspondence, written from the haven of his grandparents' home in Clarksdale, Mississippi, reveals an eye for precise detail and drama tic structure. Subsequent letters chronicle the Williams family drama and follow "Tom" through a painful return to St. Louis and later attendance at three midwestern universities until, in 1939, he assumes his famous persona, "Tennessee," and begins a transforming life on the road. The Selected Letters culminates in 1945 with his first Broadway success, The Glass Menagerie. .