In this issue, the personal diaries of Edwina Dakin Williams, Tennessee Williams’s strong-willed and long-suffering mother, take center stage. Housed in HNOC’s Fred W. Todd Tennessee Williams Collection and published together in full for the first time, Edwina’s entries offer a powerful view of young Tom Williams’s tumultuous, sometimes violent childhood. John S. Bak’s in-depth introduction and notes provide crucial context as readers immerse themselves in the raw material that Williams would eventually transform into The Glass Menagerie’s unforgettable Amanda Wingfield.

Essays inside the issue shed new light on the shocking production of Jean Cocteau’s French adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, explores homoeroticism in Williams’s paintings, and investigates three as yet unpublished works by the playwright.

Founded in 1998, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review remains the only regularly published journal devoted to Williams’s works, influence, and cultural context. Many issues showcase a previously unpublished work by Williams. Learn more at hnoc.org/publishing/tennessee-williams-annual-review.

Detail

• published 2019 by HNOC
• softcover • 6" x 9" • 114 pp.
• 4 color images
• ISBN 978-0-917860-77-5