Tennessee Williams in Provincetown

Tennesse Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennesse Williams' four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts - 1940, '41, '44 and '47

During that time he wrote plays, short stories, and jewel-like poems

In Provincetown Williams fell in love unguardedly for perhaps the only time in his life

He had his heart broken there, perhaps irraparably

The man he thought might replace his first lover tried to kill him there, or at least Williams thought so

Williams drank in Provincetown, he swam there, and he took conga lessons there

He was poor and then rich there

He was photographed naked and clothed there

He was unknown and then famous - and throughout it all Williams wrote every morning

The list of plays Williams worked on in Provincetown include The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, the beginnings of The Night of the Iguana and Suddenly Last Summer, and an abandoned autobiographical play set in Provincetown, The Parade

Tennessee Williams in Provincetown collects original interviews, journals, letters, photographs, accounts from previous biographies, newspapers from the period, and Williams' own writing to establish how the time Williams spent in Provincetown shaped him for the rest of his life

The book identifies major themes in Williams' work that derive from his experience in Provincetown, in particular the necessity of recollection given the short season of love

The book also connects Williams' mature theatrical experiments to his early friendships with Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner and the German performance artist Valeska Gert

Tennessee Williams in Provincetown, based on several years of extensive research and interviews, includes previously unpublished photographs, previously unpublished poetry, and anecdotes by those who were there

Used copy in very good condition inscribed by the author