Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth; The Rose Tattoo; The Night of the Iguana - Softcover

Williams, Tennessee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451521498 ISBN 13: 9780451521491

Publisher: Signet, 1976

Synopsis

Williams, Tennessee, Sweet Bird Of Youth; Rose Tattoo, Night Of The Iguana

About this title

About the Author:

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

Review:

The greatest U.S. playwright since Eugene O'Neill. -- Time

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0451521498
• ISBN 13: 9780451521491
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384