(Anna Tims’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/8.)
David Hare on Tennessee Williams
Loved and praised as a young man, by the end of his life Tennessee could barely get his plays on, certainly not in Manhattan, where, he said, the animus of the New York Times shut him out. But every morning, however badly the previous day had ended, Tennessee got up and wrote, way beyond the point where he believed anyone was listening.