![]() ![]() Before his death in 1999, he asked Lahr to take it on. ![]() Just, and wasn’t able to finish the task. ![]() Lahr was bequeathed the task of writing Williams’ life by Lyle Leverich, whose 1995 volume Tom: the Unknown Tennessee Williams captured the first 34 years which served as the wandering through the wilderness which informed the great man’s later writing.īut when he tried to complete the task, Leverich ran into troubles with the Williams estate, most notably its executrix, Maria St. One of the most famous lines Tennessee Williams ever wrote was “Sometimes there’s God so quickly,” which Blanche DuBois says in A Streetcar Named Desire.īut when it comes to discussing biographies of Williams himself, the line is perhaps better rewritten as “Sometimes there’s God so slowly.”Įver since the great playwright’s tragicomic death in 1983 (choking on the cap from a bottle of eye drops), there have been numerous failed attempts to sum up the great, grand sweeping saga of his life.įinally, we have Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, John Lahr’s exhaustively researched and brilliantly written portrait of the man - it is well worth waiting for. ![]() Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, A biography by John Lahr ![]()
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