Transcript: The Commissioned Biography of Tennessee Williams

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NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
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March 16, 1996
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Tennessee Williams commissioned Lyle Leverich to write his biography, and he discusses the first volume of that work, "Tom - The Unknown Tenessee Williams", which takes the playwright up to "Glass Menagerie" .

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