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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the most acclaimed, popular, and controversial American playwrights of the twentieth century. __The Glass Menagerie__, __A Streetcar Named Desire__, and __Cat on a Hot Tin Roof__ are all considered classics of modern theatre, and their characters and situations are iconic representations of the postwar South. In his early years, Williams concentrated his literary talents just as intently on poetry as on plays. Watching over him during this critical learning period was his close friend William Jay Smith (b. 1918), who met Williams in St. Louis as both were embarking on careers as writers. Smith would go on to publish thirteen collections of poetry and an epic sequence of poems describing the forced removal of Indian tribes east of the Mississippi. Both Smith and Williams were affected profoundly by memories of childhood and adolescence in Louisiana and Mississippi, and those experiences shaped their subsequent, mature work once they moved out of the South. __My Friend Tom__ is at once Smith's critical analysis of Williams's early work in poetry and drama, a brief biography of Williams during his development stages as a writer, and a moving m

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Author

William Jay Smith

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617031762

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Drama, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Rating

3.67 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14