Summer & Smoke - Paperback

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author, born in Mississippi and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. Noted as one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century, Williams's plays continue to be produced around the world. Tom Mitchell is emeritus professor of theatre at the University of Illinois and scholar-in-residence for the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis. Among other work, he edited The Caterpillar Dogs and Other Early Stories by Tennessee Williams. Mitchell lives in Champaign, Illinois. Thomas Keith has edited the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions Publishing since 2002, is coeditor of The Luck of Friendship: Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, edited Love, Christopher Street, and wrote Robert Burns's Life on the Stage. He is an associate adjunct professor of theater at Pace University.