{"product_id":"the-kindness-of-strangers-isbn-9780306808050","title":"The Kindness Of Strangers","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThis 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.\"\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891028750565,"sku":"NP9780306808050","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780306808050_3ff15dc5-38a7-405f-9356-b950ce3a3efc.jpg?v=1771872841","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-kindness-of-strangers-isbn-9780306808050","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}