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100 1 $aSpoto, Donald,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78091242
245 14 $aThe kindness of strangers :$bthe life of Tennessee Williams /$cby Donald Spoto.
250 $a1st Da Capo Press ed.
260 $aNew York :$bDa Capo Press,$c1997.
300 $axix, 409 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1985.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [385]-388) and index.
520 $aThis is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, and the Night of the Iguana.
520 8 $aAward-winning biographer Donald Spoto gives us not only a full and accurate account of Williams's life; he also reveals the intimate connections between the playwright's personal dramas and his remarkably autobiographical art. From his birth into a genteel Southern family, through his success, celebrity, and wealth, to his drug addictions, promiscuity, and creative struggles, Tennessee Williams lived a life as gripping as his plays.
520 8 $aThe Kindness of Strangers, based on Williams's own papers, his mother's diaries, and interviews with scores of friends, lovers, and professional associates, is, in the author's words, a portrait of "a man more disturbing, more dramatic, richer and more wonderful than any character he created."
600 10 $aWilliams, Tennessee,$d1911-1983.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79090096
650 0 $aDramatists, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102399
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