Tennessee Williams

 Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was America’s most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays—The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions—we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

Tennessee Williams

 Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was America’s most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays—The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions—we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

Books by Tennessee Williams

  • Baby Doll & Tiger Tail: A screenplay and play by Tennessee Williams

    Tennessee Williams

    E Book, 2016

    A taut, vivid drama of a voluptuous child-bridge who refuses to consummate her marriage to an older, down-on-his-luck cotton-gin owner.
  • Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

    Tennessee Williams, Thomas Keith

    E Book, 2016

    “The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams
  • Stairs to the Roof

    Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale

    E Book, 2016

    A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.
  • The Two-Character Play

    Tennessee Williams

    E Book, 2016

    A classic play by Tennessee Williams in a definitive, author-approved edition.
  • Clothes for a Summer Hotel: Play

    Tennessee Williams

    E Book, 2015

    This late play by Tennessee Williams explores the troubled relationship between F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
  • Fugitive Kind

    Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale

    E Book, 2016

    Social outcasts, misfit survivors, dangerous passions—Tennessee Williams fleshed out the characters and themes that would dominate his later work inFugitive Kind, one of his earliest plays.
  • Vieux Carré

    Tennessee Williams, Robert Bray

    E Book, 2016

    Born out of the journals the playwright kept at the time, Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility, but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry...
  • Camino Real

    Tennessee Williams

    E Book, 2016

    Now with a new introduction, the author's original Foreword and Afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller.
  • Sweet Bird of Youth

    Tennessee Williams, Landford Wilson

    E Book, 2016

    Now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based.
  • A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy

    Tennessee Williams, Gregory Mosher, Thomas Keith

    E Book, 2016

    The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time.