Description: "The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays--like firecrackers in a rope." --Tennessee Williams
Brief description:
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays--The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions--we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.
Review Quotes: Steps Must Be Gentle provides a tantalizing peek into Williams's preoccupation with death, suicide, and creativity.--Tom Valeo "Chicago Reader"