2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr
On 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show’s thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, ‘l…