Tennessee Williams on His Writing Process and How He Got His Name

Tennessee Williams: Interviewed by Jack Mangan aboard the SS Queen Mary, 1950.
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[@j.87558]

hah! That proximity to our phones is still a problem to this day! Even more of course.

[@michaeltrinh4394]

Gilbert Montaine de la fontue Doutre Rive.

[@Tcbca]

I was named after him and blame him for all the bullying growing up lmao. Tennessee is a cool name though

[@Mike-xh9kn]

It's a State Full of Hillbillies,but cool name🤔

[@theexpresidents]

That isn't your name on your birth certificate.

[@user-gn9vu7wn7t]

@@Mike-xh9kn Yeah but there is also Nashville and COuntry music, at least the great Country music we used to know in the past and also Graceland.

[@lotusflower8]

"...Rome, Lake Cuomo,... the mountains of Austria, are much better places for writing".
Well, Sh*t.

[@michelez715]

Lake Como.
Tennessee Williams is the greatest poet playwright of the 20th century, imo. His later works, after "The night of the iguana", were savaged by the critics, but are now being seen as a development of his genius, exploring different methods of expression, and will cement his reputation, I'm sure.