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

Books by Tennessee Williams

Fugitive Kind
Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale
Paperback, 2001
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.
Mister Paradise and Other One-Act Plays
Tennessee Williams, Nicholas Rand Moschovakis, David E. Roessel, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson
Paperback, 2005
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.
A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy
Tennessee Williams, Gregory Mosher, Thomas Keith
Paperback, 2009
The spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time.
Camino Real
Tennessee Williams
Paperback, 2010
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
Paperback, 2010
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.
Tales of Desire
Tennessee Williams
Paperback, 2010
"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters
The Glass Menagerie: The Deluxe Centennial Edition
Tennessee Williams, Tony Kushner, Robert Duncan, Allean Hale
Hardback, 2011
A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winner Tony Kushner.
Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays
Tennessee Williams, Thomas Keith
Paperback, 2016
“The peak of my virtuosity was in the one-act plays—like firecrackers in a rope.” —Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams, Robert Bray
E Book, 2013
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.
Tales of Desire
Tennessee Williams
E Book, 2015
"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters