Margaret Bradham Thornton has edited and annotated Tennessee Williams “notebooks.” The compilation has received rave reviews:

From Booklist:

“The greatest American playwright? Regardless of one’s personal thoughts on his ultimate ranking, Tennessee Williams was inarguably great. For the first time, and for dedicated aficionados of his work, his complete journals are now being published. Kept during his adult life, from 1936 (at age 25) to 1981 (two years before his death at 71), his journals were scribbled by pencil into a series of ordinary spiral-bound notebooks, but what they contain is not ordinary.”

Or the NY Times Book Review

But read this a funny little review in the Guardian. It provides a British take on the notebooks.

To listen to excerpts from the Notebooks from NPR’s Weekend Edition click here.