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Maxwell, Gilbert.
Tennessee Williams and Friends: An Informal Biography
. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1965.
Medved, Harry, and Michael Medved.
The Hollywood Hall of Shame: The Most Expensive Flops in Movie History
. New York: Perigee Books, 1984.
Milbert, Seymour. “Stage Manager’s Rehearsal Account” (unpublished) of
Camino Real
. Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y.
Miller, Arthur. “Introduction.” In Tennessee Williams,
A Streetcar Named Desire
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———. “Tennessee Williams’ Legacy: An Eloquence and Amplitude of Feeling.” In Arthur Miller,
Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays: 1944–2000
. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
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Timebends: A Life
. London: Methuen, 1999.
Morley, Sheridan.
John Gielgud: The Authorized Biography.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Murphy, Brenda.
Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre
. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Nicklaus, Frederick.
The Man Who Bit the Sun
. New York: New Directions, 1964.
Odets, Clifford.
The Time Is Ripe: The 1940 Journal of Clifford Odets
. New York: Grove Press, 1988.
Paller, Michael.
Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Palmer, R. Barton, and William Robert Bray.
Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films in Postwar America
. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Parker, Brian. “Swinging a Cat.” In Tennessee Williams,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
. New York: New Directions, 2004.
Prosser, William.
The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams
. New York: Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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If You Don’t Dance They Beat You
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
Rader, Dotson.
Blood Dues
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.
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Tennessee: Cry of the Heart.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1985.
Reeves, Richard.
President Kennedy: Profile of Power.
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The
Long-Distance Runner: A Memoir
. London: Faber & Faber, 1993.
Sagan, Françoise.
With Fondest Regards
. New York: Dutton, 1985.
Sayre, Nora.
Previous Convictions: A Journey through the 1950s.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995.
Schickel, Richard.
Elia Kazan: A Biography
. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Selznick, Irene.
A Private View
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
Sherry, Michael S.
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Smith, Bruce.
Costly Performances: Tennessee Williams: The Last Stage: A Personal Memoir.
St. Paul, Minn.: Paragon House, 1990.
Spada, James.
More Than a Woman: An Intimate Biography of Bette Davis
. New York: Warner Books, 1994.
Spoto, Donald.
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985.
Staggs, Sam.
When Blanche Met Brando: The Scandalous Story of “A Streetcar Named Desire
.
”
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Stapleton, Maureen, and Jane Scovell.
A Hell of a Life
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Steen, Mike.
A Look at Tennessee Williams
. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1969.
Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater
. DVD, directed by A. Dean Bell, Kay Cattarulla, and Rob Trachin. KERA-TV, PBS, 2006.
Tennessee Williams’ South.
DVD, directed by Harry Rasky. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1972.
Tynan, Kenneth.
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
. Edited by John Lahr. New York: Bloomsbury, 2001.
Updike, John.
Self-Consciousness
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Vidal, Gore.
The Essential Gore Vidal
. Edited by Fred Kaplan. New York: Random House, 1999.
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The Golden Age.
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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Palimpsest: A Memoir
. New York: Random House, 1995.
———. “Tennessee Williams: Someone to Laugh at the Squares With.” In Gore Vidal,
Armageddon? Essays 1983–1987
. London: Andre Deutsch, 1987.
Wallach, Eli.
The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005.
Webster, Margaret.
Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
Williams, Dakin. “The Last Days of Diana Barrymore” (unpublished). Lyle Leverich Collection, attached to the John Lahr Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Williams, Dakin, and Shepherd Mead.
Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography
. New York: Arbor House, 1983.
Williams, Edwina Dakin, as told to Lucy Freeman.
Remember Me to Tom.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1963.
Williams, Tennessee. “The Big Time Operators” (unpublished). Tennessee Williams Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
———.
The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams.
Edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis. New York: New Directions, 2002.
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Collected Stories
. New York: New Directions, 1985.
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Five O’Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948–1982
. With commentary by Maria St. Just. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
———.
Memoirs
. New York: Doubleday, 1975.
———. “Memoirs” (unpublished manuscript). Lyle Leverich Collection, attached to the John Lahr Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
———.
Moise and the World of Reason
. London: Brilliance Books, 1984.
———.
New Selected Essays: Where I Live.
Edited by John S. Bak. New York: New Directions, 2009.
———. “Night Passage” (unpublished). Lyle Leverich Collection, attached to the John Lahr Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
———.
Notebooks: Tennessee Williams
. Edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006.
———. “The Primary Colors” (unpublished). Tennessee Williams Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
———.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
. London: Vintage Classic, 1999.
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The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams
. Vol. 1:
1920–1945
. Edited by Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler. New York: New Directions, 2000.
———.
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams
. Vol. 2:
1945–1957
. Edited by Albert J. Devlin, co-edited by Nancy M. Tischler. New York: New Directions, 2004.
———.
Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham
,
1940–1965.
Edited and with comments by Donald Windham. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977.
———.
Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937–1955
. New York: Library of America, 2000.
———.
Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957–1980
. New York: Library of America, 2000.
Williams, Tennessee, and Donald Windham.
You Touched Me!
New York: Samuel French, 2010.
Windham, Donald.
As If: A Personal View of Tennessee Williams
. Verona, N.Y.: Privately published, 1985.
Wood, Audrey, with Max Wilk.
Represented by Audrey Wood.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.
Young, Jeff.
Kazan: The Master Director Discusses His Films
. New York: Newmarket Press, 1999.
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