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Memoirs

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by Tennessee Williams


  “Two on a party” (Williams), 216–17

  Two Serious Ladies (Bowles), 160

  Tynan, Kenneth, 67–68

  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 173

  homosexuality, 9–10

  U. S. Corps of Engineers, 73

  University City High School, 16, 17, 22–23

  University Theatre, 160

  Unsatisfactory Supper, The (Williams), 99

  Vaccaro, Marion, 63, 65–66, 67, 68–69, 85, 177, 186, 189, 207–8, 252

  Vaccaro, Regis, 65–66

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 250

  Veidt, Conrad, 95

  Veidt, Viola, 95

  Venereal disease, 75

  “Vengeance of Nitocris, The” (Williams), 16

  Venice Film Festival, 128, 178

  Vidal, Gore, xvi–xvii, 146–47, 148–50, 158

  Vietnam, 95

  Vinal, Harold, 96

  Virgin Islands, 116

  Visconti, Luchino, 142, 195

  Voices, 96

  Voight, Jon, 178, 231

  Von Stein, Dr. William G., 194

  Vulcania, 159

  Wallace, Mike, 95–96, 213

  Wallach, Eli, 161–62, 165

  Warhol, Andy, 178, 216

  Washington University, 89, 122

  Webster, Margaret, 62

  Weird Tales, 16

  Wescott, Glenway, 58

  Whitehead, Robert, 172–73, 183

  Why Not Try God? (Pickford), 23

  Wilder, Alec, 232

  Wilder, Thornton, 135–36

  Wilding, Michael, 212

  Williams, Cornelius Coffin, 8, 12–13, 16, 19, 24, 36, 48, 102, 110, 121, 124–25

  Williams, Dakin, 16, 118, 149, 167, 213–14, 215, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 227

  Williams, Mrs. Edwina, 7–8, 12–16, 24, 92, 149, 156, 167, 213, 218–19, 220

  fear of Mexico, 57

  Laurette Taylor and, 85–86

  mental health, 116, 213–14, 215, 226–27

  overly solicitous attention of, 11–12

  physical health, 128, 213–14, 215, 241

  Puritanism of, 119, 122

  reaction to Rose’s illness, 121–22

  Williams, Ernest, 252

  Williams, Isabel Coffin, 12

  Williams, John, 12

  Williams, Rose Isabel, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 66, 85, 111, 115–28

  debut of, 116–17

  employment, 125

  mental health, 16, 33, 39, 116–27, 241, 243–45, 250–52

  at Institute for Living, 126

  lobotomy operation, 48, 126, 251

  mother’s reaction to, 121–22

  at State Asylum (Missouri), 125, 251

  at Stoney Lodge, 126–27, 243, 244, 250–51

  physical health, 33, 116, 125

  relationship with Tennessee, 119–22

  sexual repressions, 119

  visits New York, 251–52

  Williams, Tennessee

  adolescence, 16–23

  first European tour, 16

  mental health, 16–18, 20–22

  alcohol, 19, 169, 174, 184–85, 194, 203, 207, 209, 215, 218, 219, 228, 232, 236, 249

  appears in Small Craft Warnings, 33–35, 114, 128, 138, 147, 150, 156–58, 192, 214–15, 239

  arrests of, 112–13, 147

  background of, 12

  on Carson McCullers, 106–9

  childhood, 11–16

  physical health, 11–12

  critical response to

  Camino Real, 166, 167

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 169

  Fugitive Kind, 44

  Garden District, 175–76

  The Glass Menagerie, 84, 85, 90, 149–50

  Kingdom of Earth, 212

  The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, 197, 198

  Orpheus Descending, 173

  Out Cry, 233–34

  The Rose Tattoo, 162

  Summer and Smoke, 108–9, 152, 153

  Sweet Bird of Youth, 176

  You Touched Me!, 96

  on death, 241–42, 247–49

  drugs, 174, 215–16, 219, 222, 228

  Doriden, 205, 209

  Mellaril, 205, 209

  Nembutal, 171, 192, 240

  Nytol, 225

  Ritallin, 239

  Seconal, 158, 169, 182, 203, 210–11, 225–26

  education

  fraternities, 24, 25–27, 29–33, 43

  University City High School, 16, 17, 22–23

  University of Iowa, 42–49

  University of Missouri, 2, 24–27, 29–33, 35–36, 120

  egomania of, 173

  employment, 4, 5–6, 27–28, 36–39, 69–71, 73, 75–76, 116, 119, 120

  favorite play of, 168, 234

  financial status, xviii, 52, 59, 71–72, 76–77, 145, 252

  early, 2–10, 24, 26–28, 47, 48

  grants and awards, 2, 4–5, 7–8, 10, 63, 69, 169

  first produced play, 40, 41–42

  first writings, 14, 16, 23, 35–38

  future plans, 231–32, 241, 249

  heterosexual experiences, 14–19, 25, 27–29, 30–31, 35–36, 37, 38, 46, 120

  consummation of, 42–45

  first love, 14–18, 25, 28–29, 37, 38, 120

  homosexuality, 9–10, 15, 49–51, 67, 78–79, 83–84, 140, 208–11

  affairs, 53–56, 59–61, 84, 87, 109, 132–33, 155–69, 173–75, 180–95, 199, 226–28, 232, 235, 242–44, 248

  dancing, 92–93

  first encounters, 25, 28–33, 42, 45–49

  prostitution, 75, 141, 143–45, 147, 154, 231

  sensibility and, 51

  society and, 100–1, 203–4

  Times Square cruising, 52–53

  venereal disease, 75

  violence, 96–98, 135, 136, 185–86, 215–16, 221–22

  on Jane Bowles, 159–60, 170

  on Laurette Taylor, 86, 89, 90–91

  loneliness, 99, 217, 227, 231

  marijuana, 159

  mental health, xv, 247

  adolescence, 16–18, 20–22

  collapse in the 1960s, 202–27

  depression, 101–2, 202, 204–5, 208, 228

  psychoanalysis, xviii, 173, 206–7, 238

  suicidal impulse, 203

  New York Drama Critics’ Award, 169

  origin of name, 12

  painting by, 185, 224

  physical health, xv, 98–99, 108, 110, 139–41, 252

  cancer, 235–37

  cardiovascular condition, 38–39, 42, 220, 221, 240, 246

  cataracts, 73–75

  childhood, 11–12

  convulsions, 220, 221, 240

  Maecles Diverticulum operation, 102–4

  medical insurance, 145

  staphylococci infection, 181–82

  politics, 37, 94, 95, 114, 142

  Pulitzer Prize, 169

  relationship with Audrey Wood severed, 227–29

  relationship with Rose, 119–22

  religion, 21–23, 33–34, 242

  shyness of, 17–19, 52, 163

  on Tallulah Bankhead, 61–62

  television interviews, 94–96, 213

  on television reviews, 233–34

  on William Inge, 87–90

  WPA writers’ project, 3, 48

  writing goals, 84

  writing style, 234

  changes in, xvii–xviii

  Williams, Thomas Lanier I, 12

  Williams, Thomas Lanier II, 12, 48

  Wilson, Dooley, 76

  Wilson, John C., 175

  Windham, Donald, 55, 59, 94

  Winged Victory (Hart), 82, 87

  Winters, Shelley, 136

  Wisconsin, University of, 25, 38

  Witherspoon, Cora, 70

  Wood, Audrey, 7, 10, 62, 76, 89, 92, 96, 111, 130, 132, 135, 169, 188, 193, 213, 216

  neglect by, 170, 229

  reaction toTen Blocks on the Camino Real, 101, 165

  relationship with Wi
lliams severed, 227–29

  Wood, Grant, 64–65

  WPA writers’ project, 3, 48

  Xavier, St. Francis, 12

  Yale University, xv–xvii

  “Yellow Bird, The” (Williams), 178

  Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 8–10

  York, Michael, xvi–xvii, 41, 51, 217–18, 227, 233

  York, Pat, 217, 218

  Young, John, 232–33

  Young, Stark, 41

  You Touched Me! (Williams and Windham), 79, 94, 96, 98

  critical response to, 96

  Zeffirelli, Franco, 142

  Ziegfeld, Flo, 65

  Zoo de Vetro (The Glass Menagerie), 142

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