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National Book Award Finalist * National Book Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A Chicago Tribune "Best Book of 2014" * Washington Post "10 Best Books of 2014" * The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.
"Scrupulously researched and elegantly written…makes you feel the day-to-day life of Tennessee, onstage and off, like no other I’ve read…required reading for anyone in the theater."
"Offers plenty of backstage anecdotes and high private drama…. But Mr. Lahr, ever the critic, keeps the plays themselves front and center…. The book has already won enthusiastic advance notice…along with blurbs from a kick line of A-list ‘theatricals’ including Helen Mirren, John Guare and Tony Kushner."
"Scintillating on the backstage and bedroom dramas and almost intrusively perceptive on the autobiographical nature of Williams’ art."
"Intricately detailed… gripping."
"A masterpiece."
"A crucial contribution to the arguments that should always rage around a man who was one of the greatest American playwrights of his tempestuous century."
"Raises the curtain on Tennessee Williams."
"There is only one word for this biography: superb."
"Brilliant… [Lahr’s] achievement is not likely to be surpassed."
"Splendid beyond words. It would be hard to imagine a more satisfying biography."
"This is a masterpiece about a genius. Only John Lahr, with his perceptions about the theater, about writers, about poetry, and about people could have written this book. What a marvelous read."
"Unsurpassable…An eloquent, spellbinding narrative that emerges as an instant classic."
"It is a MAGNIFICENT work. Mesmerizing, illuminating, and heartbreaking."
"Brilliant and seamless. A labor of the profoundest love, and it comes from the heart and mind of one of our greatest theater writers."
"A splendid book, one of the finest critical biographies extant."
"The singular achievement of John Lahr’s magisterial book, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is that it’s one betwitching writer’s journey into the lives—public and private—of another."
"Magnificent…one of the best written and most extraordinary biographies I’ve ever read, in any field."
"At once sensitive and magisterial, and it fulfills the ultimate test for a literary biography by convincing you that the works cannot be understood without it. Once you have read it, it becomes part of their meaning."
"It is a masterpiece on several levels: of synthesis and analysis (an amazing life apprehended afresh, with great learning lightly borne and a strong streak of showbiz savvy; a page-turner that is almost embarrassingly devourable)."
"Essential reading for anyone who cares about the theater."
"Dazzling… an epic achievement."
"Fascinating… Lahr gives us a sense of the ebb and flow of Williams’s life, exercising a critic’s keen eye on the plays, a novelist’s gift for characterization, and a historian’s awareness of the way a changing American society colored his work… As much a biography of the plays as of the playwright—a book that lets the life illuminate the work and the work illuminate the life."
"Excellent… A forceful claim for the playwright’s immortality."
"Lahr’s expansive, polished and keenly observed volume is a major work of American theater criticism and biography."
"Elegantly written as well as psychologically acute… Lahr balances quotation and interpretation, sympathy and criticism, in this searing and unforgettable portrait of the artist who gave voice to the repressed, the reviled and the restless."
"[P]rodigiously researched… acute and elegant… Lahr is most superb on the relationship between Williams and the director Eliz Kazan, perhaps his greatest collaborator."
"Witting, moving, ferociously intelligent… essential reading for any theater fan."
National Book Award finalist John Lahr is the author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, among other books. He was the senior drama critic of The New Yorker for over two decades. He has twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and is the first critic ever to win a Tony Award (coauthor, Elaine Stritch at Liberty).
"Scrupulously researched and elegantly written…makes you feel the day-to-day life of Tennessee, onstage and off, like no other I’ve read…required reading for anyone in the theater."
"Offers plenty of backstage anecdotes and high private drama…. But Mr. Lahr, ever the critic, keeps the plays themselves front and center…. The book has already won enthusiastic advance notice…along with blurbs from a kick line of A-list ‘theatricals’ including Helen Mirren, John Guare and Tony Kushner."
"Scintillating on the backstage and bedroom dramas and almost intrusively perceptive on the autobiographical nature of Williams’ art."
"Intricately detailed… gripping."
"A masterpiece."
"A crucial contribution to the arguments that should always rage around a man who was one of the greatest American playwrights of his tempestuous century."
"Raises the curtain on Tennessee Williams."
"There is only one word for this biography: superb."
"Brilliant… [Lahr’s] achievement is not likely to be surpassed."
"Splendid beyond words. It would be hard to imagine a more satisfying biography."
"This is a masterpiece about a genius. Only John Lahr, with his perceptions about the theater, about writers, about poetry, and about people could have written this book. What a marvelous read."
"Unsurpassable…An eloquent, spellbinding narrative that emerges as an instant classic."
"It is a MAGNIFICENT work. Mesmerizing, illuminating, and heartbreaking."
"Brilliant and seamless. A labor of the profoundest love, and it comes from the heart and mind of one of our greatest theater writers."
"A splendid book, one of the finest critical biographies extant."
"The singular achievement of John Lahr’s magisterial book, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is that it’s one betwitching writer’s journey into the lives—public and private—of another."
"Magnificent…one of the best written and most extraordinary biographies I’ve ever read, in any field."
"At once sensitive and magisterial, and it fulfills the ultimate test for a literary biography by convincing you that the works cannot be understood without it. Once you have read it, it becomes part of their meaning."
"It is a masterpiece on several levels: of synthesis and analysis (an amazing life apprehended afresh, with great learning lightly borne and a strong streak of showbiz savvy; a page-turner that is almost embarrassingly devourable)."
"Essential reading for anyone who cares about the theater."
"Dazzling… an epic achievement."
"Fascinating… Lahr gives us a sense of the ebb and flow of Williams’s life, exercising a critic’s keen eye on the plays, a novelist’s gift for characterization, and a historian’s awareness of the way a changing American society colored his work… As much a biography of the plays as of the playwright—a book that lets the life illuminate the work and the work illuminate the life."
"Excellent… A forceful claim for the playwright’s immortality."
"Lahr’s expansive, polished and keenly observed volume is a major work of American theater criticism and biography."
"Elegantly written as well as psychologically acute… Lahr balances quotation and interpretation, sympathy and criticism, in this searing and unforgettable portrait of the artist who gave voice to the repressed, the reviled and the restless."
"[P]rodigiously researched… acute and elegant… Lahr is most superb on the relationship between Williams and the director Eliz Kazan, perhaps his greatest collaborator."
"Witting, moving, ferociously intelligent… essential reading for any theater fan."
National Book Award finalist John Lahr is the author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, among other books. He was the senior drama critic of The New Yorker for over two decades. He has twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and is the first critic ever to win a Tony Award (coauthor, Elaine Stritch at Liberty).