Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

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Tennessee Williams papers, 1932-1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612795400

The bulk of this collection consists of drafts of TW's theatrical plays. These range from handwritten notes scrawled on scraps of paper, to loose pages typed on hotel stationery, to professionally typed clean copies, to TW's notes made during rehearsals. Most of his plays from the 1950s onward are represented, as well as a smaller proportion of his early works. Most notable for its omission is his 1944 The glass menagerie, while A streetcar named Desire (1947) is represented only by 9 loose sheets from various drafts. Later works such as The milk train doesn't stop here any more, Out cry, Red Devil Battery sign, and many others, are very well documented. The collection also includes good documentation of TW's work in other fields, including his scripts for film and television, and his fiction, poetry, and essays. Also included are an eclectic but important group of his correspondence, mostly drafts of letters sent (most notably with partner Frank P. Merlo and director Elia Kazan); transcripts of several interviews; biographical papers, including several diaries kept by Williams intermittently from 1942 to 1981; a few scattered financial papers; compositions by others which were retained by Williams (including significant works by Jane Auer Bowles and Gore Vidal); and a small group of photographs.

45 boxes (20 linear ft.)

Harvard University, Harvard Theater Collection, Harvard College Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7798691

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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983

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Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Cornelius, a salesman who was largely absent had a bad relationship with Tennessee, the second of his three children. Consequently, Tennessee was raised predominantly by his mother, Edwina, and maternal grandparents. His often strained and disturbed family life became the fodder for many of his plays. After moving to New Orleans in his late 20s, and adopting the name Tenn...

Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973

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American writer. From the description of Jane Bowles Collection, 1944-1966. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122602047 American expatriate author. From the description of Papers of Jane Bowles, 1966-1967. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136010 The author Jane Auer Bowles, 1917-1973, published one novel, Two Serious Ladies (1943); one play, In the Summer House ...

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012

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Gore Vidal was born Eugene Luther Gore Vidal in West Point, New York, on October 3, 1925, to Eugene Luther and Nina Vidal. Vidal shortened his name during his teen years to honor his maternal grandfather, with whom he lived for several years in the late 1930s. After his parents divorced, Vidal lived with his mother and her new husband in northern Virginia and attended a series of boarding schools. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1943, Vida...

Merlo, Frank P., 1930-,

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Kazan, Elia

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American film director. From the description of Carbon copy of a typed letter : place not specified, to Darryl [Zanuck], undated [1952 Jan. or Feb.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778505876 American film producer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to [John Steinbeck], undated [1948]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777247890 From the description of Preservation photocopy of a typed letter : place not specified, to John Stein...