{"product_id":"kindness-of-strangers-pb-9780306808050","title":"Kindness of Strangers PB","description":"This is the first complete, critical biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of America's finest playwrights and the author of (among many important works) \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Night of the Iguana.\u003c\/i\u003e Award-winning biographer Donald Spoto gives us not only a full and accurate account of Williams's life, he also reveals the intimate connections between the playwright's personal dramas and his remarkably autobiographical art. From his birth into a genteel Southern family, through his success, celebrity, and wealth, to his drug addictions, promiscuity, and creative struggles, Tennessee Williams lived a life as gripping as his plays. \u003ci\u003eThe Kindness of Strangers, \u003c\/i\u003e based on Williams's own papers, his mother's diaries, and interviews with scores of friends, lovers, and professional associates, is, in the author's words, a portrait of \"a man more disturbing, more dramatic, richer and more wonderful than any character he created.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Spoto \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many books, among them internationally best-selling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Ingrid Bergman. He lives in Beverly Hills, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318984478994,"sku":"9780306808050","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_332f5c8f-eb35-42f3-97f8-8ed5c8aaed03.jpg?v=1727563275","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kindness-of-strangers-pb-9780306808050","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}