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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.

Director, screenwriter, and well-known raconteur of American kitsch and camp, John Waters' films include Pink Flamingos and Cecil B. Demented. In 2002 his film Hairspray was made into a hit Broadway musical.

For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.

Library Journal

Williams's thoroughly honest memoir, with its open talk of homosexuality, alcoholism/drug addiction, and mental illness, was quite the eyeopener in 1975. His work and partying made him buddies with many famous writers and actors of the day (Capote, Brando, etc.), whom he discusses. Besides all the gossip, the book also provides insight into one of the world's great dramatists. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.