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Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams

Author: Lyle Leverich
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Publisher: Crown
Considered by many to be the greatest artist of the American theatre, Tennessee Williams has been described by those who knew him as shy and aggressive, lucid and manic, accessible and elusive, kind and cruel, but always enigmatic. Until now, little has been known of Williams’s youth and the true forces that influenced and helped create the persona of Tennessee Williams.

Lyle Leverich, chosen by the playwright himself as his biographer, has been given exclusive access to letters, diaries and journals, unpublished manuscripts, and family documents and has written the definitive biography of Williams’s early life. Leverich takes us through Williams’s largely unknown life from the young, introspective schoolboy through his stalled academic career, the early success of his writing, the confusion over his sexuality, the growing certainty of his talent, to the brink of fame with The Glass Menagerie. Tom tells the story of the “unknown” years of the playwright’s life, before Tom, the person, was eclipsed by Tennessee, the celebrated persona.

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From introspective schoolboy to flamboyant artist, this book traces the early life of Thomas Lanier Williams through his stalled academic career, the confusion over his sexuality, and the growing certainty of his talent. A luminous recounting of the years in the playwright’s life before “Tom” was eclipsed by “Tennessee.”

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