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Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams ends with the unexpected triumph of The Glass Menagerie. Volume II extends the correspondence from 1946 to 1957, a time of intense creativity which saw the production of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Following the immense success of Streetcar, Williams struggles to retain his prominence with a prodigious outpouring of stories, poetry, and novels as well as plays. Several major film projects, including the notorious Baby Doll, bring Williams and his collaborator Elia Kazan into conflict with powerful agencies of censorship, exposing both the conservative landscape of the 1950s and Williams' own studied resistance to the forces of conformity. Letters written to Kazan, Carson McCullers, Gore Vidal, publisher James Laughlin, and Audrey Wood, Williams' resourceful agent, continue earlier lines of correspondence and introduce new celebrity figures. The Broadway and Hollywood successes in the evolving career of America's premier dramatist vie with a string of personal losses and a deepening depression to make this period an emotional and artistic rollercoaster for Tennessee.
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James Arthur
reviewed The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume II: 1946-1957 on August 23, 2015
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume II: 1946-1957
Cheever's letters are witty, engaging and warm, quite unlike the Cheever revealed in his journals, who was a man consumed with self-loathing and guilt mainly due to his bisexuality. The letters though, edited by his son Ben, who is frank in his assessment of his father, are a delight to read and must have been an equal delight to receive. Many letters were lost, as Cheever himself did not keep copies and only a small number of his correspondents did. Many were to Josie Herbst a longtime friend, who ultimately sold the letters to Yale for a goodly sum with the blessing of Cheever. I love letters and journals which are written more spontaneously and immediately than memoirs or autobiographies.
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