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When "Memoirs" was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media - though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by "The New York Times Book Review". As it turns out, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of "The Glass Menagerie" in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Autobiography: general

• Full title: Memoirs
• Author: Tennessee Williams
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• EAN: 9780141189291
• ISBN: 0141189290
• ID: 04027287
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. December 2007

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