The Independent: John Lahr on his dazzling biography of Tennessee Williams - 'Often, reading this biography, which begins with the huge success of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, you aren’t quite sure whether to laugh or cry, such is Williams’s tendency to squander the goodness given to him and yet to wrest winning grace and humour from his humiliations.

I didn’t quite 'get' 'Desire and the Black Masseur' when I read it in 'One Arm,' but I hoped I would one day.' I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny. New York Times: The Kindness of a Stranger - 'Yes, Tennessee Williams was my childhood friend. But 'Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh' is not exactly what its title page claims it is-a biography.' He is a witty and elegant stylist, a scrupulous researcher, a passionate yet canny advocate. John Lahr, the longtime drama critic for the New Yorker, knows his way around Broadway better than anyone. The Wall Street Journal: Book Review: 'Tennessee Williams' by John Lahr - 'This is by far the best book ever written about America's greatest playwright. Author of the new book, ' Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgramage of the Flesh.' Also author of ' Notes on a Cowardly Lion,' among others. John Lahr, writer and former senior drama critic at the New Yorker. Playwright Tennessee Williams attends a memorial service for poet Dylan Thomas in 1953. Great American playwright Tennessee Williams’ battle for art and sanity – a big new biography brings his story alive. Facebook Email This article is more than 8 years old.

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