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Mar 14, 2024 · The cover of TWAR 2024 features a photograph of Frank Merlo and Tennessee Williams taken in 1958 when they were living together in Key West, Florida. (Photo by John Vachon for Look magazine; courtesy Library of Congress, LC-L9-58-7797-E, no. 12)
Mar 21, 2019 · When Tennessee Williams first met Frank Merlo, a handsome, athletic, working-class Italian-American from New Jersey, at a Provincetown bar in 1947, he was already the celebrated playwright of The Glass Menagerie. What began as a one-night tryst turned into a 14-year romantic partnership.
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Jun 15, 2022 · Famous Couples: Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo. Tennessee Williams & Frank Merlo, 1958 (date added to Look’s library). Photograph. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. In honor of Pride Month, I wanted to highlight the relationship between Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo.
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Dec 6, 2018 · Williams’s own life was not without high drama. By the 1960s his health had deteriorated, due, in large part, to years of abusing sleeping pills and liquor, he was struggling with depression — particularly after the death of his longtime partner, Frank Merlo, in 1963 — and his career was in decline.
Appearing for the first time in print, Tennessee Williams’s moving poem “The Final Day of Your Life” describes the playwright’s last visit with Frank Merlo, his life companion of nearly 15 years.
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Cover image: Frank Merlo and Tennessee Williams in Key West, 1958. Photo by John Vachon for Look magazine. Library of Congress, LC-L9-58-7797-E, no. 12. Founded by Robert Bray in 1998 and now edited by R. Barton Palmer, the Review remains the only journal dedicated to the work and influence of this preeminent American playwright.
