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Jun 5, 2023 · Sometime in September, 1982, James Grissom, a twenty-year-old English student at Louisiana State University, receives a life-changing phone call from Tennessee Williams.
Apr 16, 2015 · Tennessee Williams tasked James Grissom with seeking out each of the women (and few men) who had inspired his work—Maureen Stapleton, Lillian Gish, Marlon Brando and others—so that he could ask them a question: had Tennessee Williams, or his work, ever mattered?
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Aug 9, 2016 · by James Grissom (Author) 4.5 222 ratings. See all formats and editions. This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor.
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About Follies of God. This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter ...
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Sep 30, 2015 · The story of how James Grissom came to write Follies of God is almost as remarkable as the book itself. When Grissom, a Louisiana native, was 20 years old and an aspiring writer, he wrote a...
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Jun 7, 2023 · Writers are raising doubts about the veracity of an eight-year-old book on playwright Tennessee Williams, author of A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and other classics of the American theater. In an article for the New Yorker, Helen Shaw examines James Grissom’s Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog ...
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