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Grissom, James.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Women in literature.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Grissom, James.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Women in literature.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Follies of God : Tennessee Williams and the women of the fog /
James
Grissom
.
by
Grissom
,
James
.
Vintage Books, 2016, c2015.
Call #:
812.5409 W727g
Subjects
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Women in literature.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
ISBN:
9781101972779 (pbk.)
9780307265692 (hc., Alfred A. Knopf ed.)
Edition:
Vintage pbk. ed.
Description:
403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in hardcover in 2015.
Includes index.
Text in English.
Summary:
"This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams's life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer,
James
Grissom
, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent
Grissom
on a journey on his behalf to find out if he or his work had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom
Grissom
talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, ("the escort who brought me to Blanche"), Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne ("She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper"), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and many more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater"--Provided by publisher.
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