For Tennessee Williams the past is always present. As he weaves his “Memoirs,” the playwright continually shifts and intermingles times and places-his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis; his struggle as a "starving artist"; "overnight" success with The Glass Menagerie in 1945; the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1963; confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969, and his subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction in the 1970s. Of course “Memoirs” is also filled with amazing friends who Williams, often hilariously-sometimes fondly, sometimes not-remembers: Laurette Taylor, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Carson McCullers, Anna Magnani, Elizabeth Taylor, and Tallulah Bankhead to name just a few. Much has changed in America since 1975 when Williams's candor in “Memoirs” --about being a gay man, his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use-caused a bit of a scandal, but some things has not. Filmmaker John Waters provides much-needed perspective to this edition of "Memoirs" with a bold and witty introduction that is characterized by his undiluted admiration and respect for Tennessee Williams as an artist and a man. In addition, noted Williams scholar Allean Hale has provided a brief Afterword detailing a few of Williams' more intriguing discrepancies.  One of the world's greatest playwrights, Tennessee Williams was the author of over thirty full-length plays including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camino Real, Not About Nightingales, The Rose Tattoo, and The Night of the Iguana.  Paperback.