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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr

John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismLiterary BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryLiterature & Writers

Award History

1 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyMajor2014WinnerSecondary source
National Book Award for NonfictionMajor2014FinalistSecondary source
Plutarch Award: Biography2015FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Tennessee Williams86%

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

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