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Holds Together in Tight Spell,”
Chicago Tribune
, December 27, 1944, 11; “Glass Menagerie Is Best Play of Year, Drama Critics Decide,”
New York Times
, April 11, 1945, 18; Leonard Lyons, “Broadway Glossary,”
Washington Post
, May 12, 1945, 8.
    16 . Frank S. Adams, “Pulitzer Prizes Go to ‘Streetcar’ and Michener’s Stories ofPacific,”
New York Times
, May 4, 1948, A1; Howard Barnes, “O’Neill Status Won by Author of Streetcar,”
New York Herald Tribune
, December 14, 1947, E1; Wolcott Gibbs, “Theater,”
New Yorker
, December 13, 1947, 50.
    17 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 141, 145–46.
    18 . Ibid., 139.
    19 . Ibid., 145; Williams,
Memoirs
, 139; Williams to Paul Bigelow, January 7, 1948, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York.
    20 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 149; Williams to Elizabeth Schauffler and Audrey Wood, January 1948, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
    21 . Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 153; Williams to Elizabeth Schauffler and Audrey Wood, January 1948, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; Williams to Elia Kazan, January 25, 1948, Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, Middletown, Connecticut.
    22 . Ronald Hayman,
Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else Is an Audience
(New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1993), 125.
    23 . Williams journal entry May 29, 1949, reprinted in Margaret Bradham Thornton, ed.,
Notebooks: Tennessee Williams
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), 485.
    24 . Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 146.
    25 . Williams,
Memoirs
, 155.
    26 . Ibid.; Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 146.
    27 . Williams journal entries May 29, 1949, and December 30, 1953, reprinted in Thornton,
Notebooks
, 501, 607.
    28 . Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 241, 244.
    29 . Ibid., 169.
    30 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 153, 258; Thornton,
Notebooks
, 486.
    31 . Williams,
Memoirs
, 189.
    32 . Hayman,
Tennessee Williams
, 136; Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 171; Williams,
Memoirs
, 162.
    33 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 165; Williams to Paul Bigelow, August 3, 1950, and to Carson McCullers, April 1950, Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Williams to Cheryl Crawford, June 9, 1950, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York.
    34 . Brooks Atkinson, “At the Theatre,”
New York Times
, February 5, 1951, 33; Claudia Cassidy, “‘Rose Tattoo’ a Stimulating Drama in Bud,”
Chicago Tribune
, December 31, 1950, 5; Hayman,
Tennessee Williams
, 137.
    35 . Williams to Audrey Wood, March 27, 1950, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
    36 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 195; Williams to Cheryl Crawford, June 1954, Billy Rose Theatre Collection; Williams to Cheryl Crawford, August 23, 1954, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
    37 . Hayman,
Tennessee Williams
, 165–66; Spoto,
Kindness
, 179, 193; Williams and Mead,
Tennessee Williams
, 248.
    38 . Brooks Atkinson, “Theatre: Tennessee Williams’ ‘Cat,’”
New York Times
, March 25, 1955, 18; John Chapman, “Acting Excellent, but Williams Play Lacks Purpose,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 26, 1955, 13; Walter Winchell, “The Broadway Lights,”
Washington Post
, March 14, 1955, 35.
    39 . Charles Grutzner, “Pulitzer Winners,”
New York Times
, May 3, 1955, 1; “Williams’ Drama Cited by Critics,”
New York Times
, April 13, 1955, 33.
    40 . Williams,
Memoirs
, 188.
    41 . Spoto,
Kindness
, 239.
    42 . John Chapman, “Theatre Reviews,”
New York Daily News
, December 29, 1961, 44; T. E. Kalem, “The Angel of the Odd,”
Time
, March 9, 1962, 53; Dorothy Kilgallen, “New York’s a Winter Playground,”
Washington Post
, January 28, 1962, G6.
    43 . For articles about Williams’s personal life that do not talk about his sexuality, see Brooks Atkinson,