Margaret Bradham Thornton is a writer and independent scholar based in Bedminster, New Jersey.
"Margaret Thornton has done something that would have delighted
Tennessee Williams. She has served up his revealing notebooks with
so rich of a mix of additional material and notations that the
result is almost a new literary genre: a mix of diary, biography,
autobiography, scrapbooks, and documentary history. It is
addictive, and it bares Williams's soul."—Walter Isaacson, author
of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
*Walter Isaacson*
"These notebooks—partial as they are—will help clarify the creative
and psychological highs and lows which both sustained and buffeted
Tennessee Williams throughout his extraordinary life."—Edward
Albee
*Edward Albee*
"Of the more than one hundred books written about Tennessee
Williams since his death, his own book, the Notebooks, is
unique. It records the innermost feelings of America's
greatest playwright from youth to old age, as jotted down by the
playwright himself."—Allean Hale, Krannert Theatre, University of
Illinois-Urbana
*Allean Hale*
"Here we have Tennessee Williams on and about Tennessee Williams,
more revealing even than the Letters and sometimes more
vulnerable than in the Memoirs. Thornton has supplied a masterfully
edited, copiously annotated, and lavishly illustrated edition that
is invaluable for scholars and Williams fans worldwide."—Philip C.
Kolin, University of Southern Mississippi
*Philip C. Kolin*
"A sound and solid record of an artist's intimate mind and
heart—and while personal, the Notebooks offer new insight into the
cognitive patterns, cultural context, and physical life of one of
the twentieth century's most important writers. I was profoundly
moved by this privileged glimpse at Tennessee Williams' life and
mind."—Ron Carlson, Director of Creative Writing, University of
California at Irvine
*Ron Carlson*
"The Notebooks take us on a harrowing journey, and we come to know
Williams the person very intimately, in the way he quite pitilessly
knew himself. Reading them is like reading Van Gogh's letters or
the diary of Nijinsky: the art arises from great pain that elicits
pity and terror for the artist and lets us understand the
uniqueness of his creations more subtly and intuitively."—Brian
Parker, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
*Brian Parker*
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