Vieux Carré, xxvii, 325, 348–51, 355
“The Vine,” 87, 194
“Violin Case,” 194
“What’s Next on the Agenda, Mr. Williams?,” 300, 344
Where I Live: Selected Essays (Day and Wood, eds.), xxvi, 224n, 337n, 339
“The Widow Holly,” 194, 267
“Winter Smoke Is Blue and Bitter,” 338
“Wolf’s Hour,” 345
“A Wreath for Alexandra Molostvova,” 204n
“The Yellow Bird,” 98, 267
“You and I,” 282n
“Young Men Waking at Daybreak,” 278n, 279, 280
The Youthfully Departed, 366n, 367n
You Touched Me! (with Windham), 7n, 11n, 25n, 32, 38, 41–44, 63, 64n, 65, 68
Williams, Thomas Lanier, see Williams, Tennessee
Williams, Thomas Lanier, I, 305
Williams, Walter Dakin (brother), xxiv, 30, 31n, 32, 54, 78–79, 80n, 144, 229, 254–56, 265, 273, 284, 285n, 287, 292n, 297, 303, 371
Williams, William Carlos, 8n, 61, 74, 99n–100n, 165, 166n, 212, 242–44
A Dream of Love, 229
Many Loves and Other Plays, 61n, 229n
Trial Horse No. 1 (Many Loves), 61n
Windham, Donald, 38, 44n, 62, 72, 87, 169, 172, 173, 255, 348, 349n
The Dog Star, 103, 104n, 114, 156
The Hero Continues, 7n
The Starless Air, 185, 187–88
“The Starless Air,” 85
Wood, Audrey, xii, xv, xx, 7n, 15, 37, 38n, 51–52, 55, 56n, 58–59, 61–63, 76, 78, 80, 84–87, 89–91, 99, 102–3, 105, 112, 120, 122–23, 127, 131–32, 136–39, 141–51, 154, 164, 166, 172, 174, 178–79, 186, 199, 214, 220, 225, 227–28, 232, 245–46, 256, 260n, 266, 272, 289–90, 298, 311n, 312–13
Wood, Bob, 337n
World War II, xx, 29, 31n, 113n, 121n, 175n
Wright, Teresa, 25
W. W. Norton & Company, 236n, 357
Wyman, Jane, 123, 124n
Wyoming, 327, 344, 358
Yale Law School, 198n
Yale University, 128n
YMHA Poetry Center, 65, 271
York, Michael, 319n
Young, Stark, 33, 35
Zefferelli, Franco, 326
Zoo di Vetro (film), 99
Zournas, George, xx, 175n, 231, 313
Zukofsky, Louis, 8n
Also in the James Laughlin Selected Letters series
Guy Davenport and James Laughlin
(edited by W. C. Bamberger)
Thomas Merton and James Laughlin
(edited by David D. Cooper)
Henry Miller and James Laughlin
(edited by George Wicks)
Ezra Pound and James Laughlin
(edited by David M. Gordon)
Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin
(edited by Robert Phillips)
Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin
(edited by Lee Bartlett)
William Carlos Williams and James Laughlin
(edited by Hugh Witemeyer)
Copyright © 2018 by The Trustees of the New Directions Ownership Trust
Copyright © 2018 by The University of the South
Introduction copyright © 2018 by Peggy L. Fox
Notes on the Text copyright © 2018 by Thomas Keith
Annotations to Letters copyright © 2018 by Peggy L. Fox and Thomas Keith
Previously unpublished sections of Peggy L. Fox interview with James Laughlin copyright © 2018
by Peggy L. Fox and The New Directions Ownership Trust
“Tennessee” by James Laughlin, from The Collected Poems of James Laughlin, copyright © 1983
by James Laughlin. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Letters and memos by Robert M. MacGregor, Frederick R. Martin, and Peggy L. Fox, written
as employees of New Directions Publishing Corporation, are the property of The New Directions Ownership Trust and used by permission of the Trustees.
All rights reserved
First Edition
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions,
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110
For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact
W. W. Norton Special Sales at [email protected] or 800-233-4830
Book design by Marysarah Quinn
Production manager: Lauren Abbate
JACKET DESIGN BY CATHERINE CASALINO
JACKET PHOTOGRAPHS: (TENNESSEE WILLIAMS) © ELIOT ELISOFON / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY IMAGES; (JAMES LAUGHLIN) © THE ESTATE OF JAMES LAUGHLIN / COURTESY OF NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Names: Williams, Tennessee, 1911–1983, author. | Laughlin, James, 1914–1997, author. |
Fox, Peggy L., editor. | Keith, Thomas, 1961– editor.
Title: The luck of friendship : the letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin / edited
by Peggy L. Fox and Thomas Keith.
Description: First edition. | New York : W. W. Norton Company, [2018] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000448 | ISBN 9780393246209 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Williams, Tennessee, 1911–1983—Correspondence. |
Laughlin, James, 1914–1997—Correspondence. | Dramatists, American—20th century—Correspondence. | Publishers and publishing—United States—Correspondence. | Authors
and publishers—United States—History—20th century.
Classification: LCC PS3545.I5365 Z48 2018 | DDC 812/.54 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000448
ISBN 978-0-393-65274-1 (e-book)
W. W. Norton Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110
www.wwnorton.com
W. W. Norton Company Ltd., 15 Carlisle Street, London W1D 3BS
The Luck of Friendship Page 40