Author Biography
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo. Terrence McNally is the author of a dozen one-acts and over thirty full-length plays. He has been honored with four Tony Awards-for Love! Valour! Compassion!, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Master Class, and Ragtime-four Drama Desk Awards, two Obie Awards, and an Emmy. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, Thomas Keith is an editor, as well as production manager and art director, at New Directions Publishing. He lives in New York City.