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Memoirs (New Directions Paperbook) by Tennessee Williams, John Waters, Allean Hale is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review . As it turns out, thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays. And, of course, Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of

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Author

Tennessee Williams, John Waters, Allean Hale

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811216692

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (490 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14