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Article: Tennessee Williams and the South. (Southern Scrapbook).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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The University Press of Mississippi, publisher of a new book on Tennessee Williams, states that "No other writer has been more closely connected to the region of his birth than Tennessee Williams. Indeed, he remarked on several occasions that the farther south one went in America, the more congenial life was. He wrote, he said, not only of the present but also of the past and of a South that had no counterpart anywhere else." May 17 through 19, fans of this Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright will gather in Columbus to celebrate Williams' life and work. The occasion is the First Annual Tennessee Williams Tribute and Victorian Home Tour, featuring the signing of Tennessee ...