"Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends, and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams's sometimes hilarious, but often devious, counter-reality from truth, the letters form a virtual autobiography of the great American dramatist. " "Volume I: 1920-1945 of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams includes 330 letters written to nearly seventy correspondents and chosen from a group of 900 letters collected by two leading Williams scholars. "--Jacket.