“Two on a party” (Williams), 216–17
Two Serious Ladies (Bowles), 160
Tynan, Kenneth, 67–68
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 173
homosexuality, 9–10
U. S. Corps of Engineers, 73
University City High School, 16, 17, 22–23
University Theatre, 160
Unsatisfactory Supper, The (Williams), 99
Vaccaro, Marion, 63, 65–66, 67, 68–69, 85, 177, 186, 189, 207–8, 252
Vaccaro, Regis, 65–66
Van Gogh, Vincent, 250
Veidt, Conrad, 95
Veidt, Viola, 95
Venereal disease, 75
“Vengeance of Nitocris, The” (Williams), 16
Venice Film Festival, 128, 178
Vidal, Gore, xvi–xvii, 146–47, 148–50, 158
Vietnam, 95
Vinal, Harold, 96
Virgin Islands, 116
Visconti, Luchino, 142, 195
Voices, 96
Voight, Jon, 178, 231
Von Stein, Dr. William G., 194
Vulcania, 159
Wallace, Mike, 95–96, 213
Wallach, Eli, 161–62, 165
Warhol, Andy, 178, 216
Washington University, 89, 122
Webster, Margaret, 62
Weird Tales, 16
Wescott, Glenway, 58
Whitehead, Robert, 172–73, 183
Why Not Try God? (Pickford), 23
Wilder, Alec, 232
Wilder, Thornton, 135–36
Wilding, Michael, 212
Williams, Cornelius Coffin, 8, 12–13, 16, 19, 24, 36, 48, 102, 110, 121, 124–25
Williams, Dakin, 16, 118, 149, 167, 213–14, 215, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 227
Williams, Mrs. Edwina, 7–8, 12–16, 24, 92, 149, 156, 167, 213, 218–19, 220
fear of Mexico, 57
Laurette Taylor and, 85–86
mental health, 116, 213–14, 215, 226–27
overly solicitous attention of, 11–12
physical health, 128, 213–14, 215, 241
Puritanism of, 119, 122
reaction to Rose’s illness, 121–22
Williams, Ernest, 252
Williams, Isabel Coffin, 12
Williams, John, 12
Williams, Rose Isabel, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 66, 85, 111, 115–28
debut of, 116–17
employment, 125
mental health, 16, 33, 39, 116–27, 241, 243–45, 250–52
at Institute for Living, 126
lobotomy operation, 48, 126, 251
mother’s reaction to, 121–22
at State Asylum (Missouri), 125, 251
at Stoney Lodge, 126–27, 243, 244, 250–51
physical health, 33, 116, 125
relationship with Tennessee, 119–22
sexual repressions, 119
visits New York, 251–52
Williams, Tennessee
adolescence, 16–23
first European tour, 16
mental health, 16–18, 20–22
alcohol, 19, 169, 174, 184–85, 194, 203, 207, 209, 215, 218, 219, 228, 232, 236, 249
appears in Small Craft Warnings, 33–35, 114, 128, 138, 147, 150, 156–58, 192, 214–15, 239
arrests of, 112–13, 147
background of, 12
on Carson McCullers, 106–9
childhood, 11–16
physical health, 11–12
critical response to
Camino Real, 166, 167
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 169
Fugitive Kind, 44
Garden District, 175–76
The Glass Menagerie, 84, 85, 90, 149–50
Kingdom of Earth, 212
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, 197, 198
Orpheus Descending, 173
Out Cry, 233–34
The Rose Tattoo, 162
Summer and Smoke, 108–9, 152, 153
Sweet Bird of Youth, 176
You Touched Me!, 96
on death, 241–42, 247–49
drugs, 174, 215–16, 219, 222, 228
Doriden, 205, 209
Mellaril, 205, 209
Nembutal, 171, 192, 240
Nytol, 225
Ritallin, 239
Seconal, 158, 169, 182, 203, 210–11, 225–26
education
University City High School, 16, 17, 22–23
University of Iowa, 42–49
University of Missouri, 2, 24–27, 29–33, 35–36, 120
egomania of, 173
employment, 4, 5–6, 27–28, 36–39, 69–71, 73, 75–76, 116, 119, 120
favorite play of, 168, 234
financial status, xviii, 52, 59, 71–72, 76–77, 145, 252
early, 2–10, 24, 26–28, 47, 48
grants and awards, 2, 4–5, 7–8, 10, 63, 69, 169
first produced play, 40, 41–42
first writings, 14, 16, 23, 35–38
future plans, 231–32, 241, 249
heterosexual experiences, 14–19, 25, 27–29, 30–31, 35–36, 37, 38, 46, 120
consummation of, 42–45
first love, 14–18, 25, 28–29, 37, 38, 120
homosexuality, 9–10, 15, 49–51, 67, 78–79, 83–84, 140, 208–11
affairs, 53–56, 59–61, 84, 87, 109, 132–33, 155–69, 173–75, 180–95, 199, 226–28, 232, 235, 242–44, 248
dancing, 92–93
first encounters, 25, 28–33, 42, 45–49
prostitution, 75, 141, 143–45, 147, 154, 231
sensibility and, 51
society and, 100–1, 203–4
Times Square cruising, 52–53
venereal disease, 75
violence, 96–98, 135, 136, 185–86, 215–16, 221–22
on Jane Bowles, 159–60, 170
on Laurette Taylor, 86, 89, 90–91
loneliness, 99, 217, 227, 231
marijuana, 159
mental health, xv, 247
adolescence, 16–18, 20–22
collapse in the 1960s, 202–27
depression, 101–2, 202, 204–5, 208, 228
psychoanalysis, xviii, 173, 206–7, 238
suicidal impulse, 203
New York Drama Critics’ Award, 169
origin of name, 12
painting by, 185, 224
physical health, xv, 98–99, 108, 110, 139–41, 252
cancer, 235–37
cardiovascular condition, 38–39, 42, 220, 221, 240, 246
cataracts, 73–75
childhood, 11–12
convulsions, 220, 221, 240
Maecles Diverticulum operation, 102–4
medical insurance, 145
staphylococci infection, 181–82
politics, 37, 94, 95, 114, 142
Pulitzer Prize, 169
relationship with Audrey Wood severed, 227–29
relationship with Rose, 119–22
religion, 21–23, 33–34, 242
shyness of, 17–19, 52, 163
on Tallulah Bankhead, 61–62
television interviews, 94–96, 213
on television reviews, 233–34
on William Inge, 87–90
WPA writers’ project, 3, 48
writing goals, 84
writing style, 234
changes in, xvii–xviii
Williams, Thomas Lanier I, 12
Williams, Thomas Lanier II, 12, 48
Wilson, Dooley, 76
Wilson, John C., 175
Windham, Donald, 55, 59, 94
Winged Victory (Hart), 82, 87
Winters, Shelley, 136
Wisconsin, University of, 25, 38
Witherspoon, Cora, 70
Wood, Audrey, 7, 10, 62, 76, 89, 92, 96, 111, 130, 132, 135, 169, 188, 193, 213, 216
neglect by, 170, 229
reaction toTen Blocks on the Camino Real, 101, 165
relationship with Wi
lliams severed, 227–29
Wood, Grant, 64–65
WPA writers’ project, 3, 48
Xavier, St. Francis, 12
Yale University, xv–xvii
“Yellow Bird, The” (Williams), 178
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 8–10
York, Michael, xvi–xvii, 41, 51, 217–18, 227, 233
York, Pat, 217, 218
Young, John, 232–33
Young, Stark, 41
You Touched Me! (Williams and Windham), 79, 94, 96, 98
critical response to, 96
Zeffirelli, Franco, 142
Ziegfeld, Flo, 65
Zoo de Vetro (The Glass Menagerie), 142
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