{"id":34666,"date":"2018-03-30T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/30\/tennessee-williams-lacked-confidence-letters-to-friends-reveal\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T13:38:16","slug":"tennessee-williams-lacked-confidence-letters-to-friends-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=34666","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Williams lacked confidence, letters to friends reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book of previously-unpublished correspondence shows writer\u2019s constant need for reassuranceHe found fame with The Glass Menagerie and won Pulitzer prizes for his stage masterpieces, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but Tennessee Williams was plagued by self-doubt, previously unpublished letters reveal.The American dramatist\u2019s lack of confidence emerges repeatedly through his correspondence with trusted friends -his publisher James Laughlin, and editor Robert MacGregor &#8211; over 25 years until his death in 1983. In 1964, he wrote of his \u201cself-contempt\u201d, adding: \u201cI must confess that I have doubts and fears.\u201d In 1972, he confided: \u201cYou know how badly I need reassurance about my work.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2018\/mar\/30\/tennessee-williams-lacked-confidence-letters-to-friends-reveal\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Williams lacked confidence, letters to friends reveal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book of previously-unpublished correspondence shows writer\u2019s constant need for reassuranceHe found fame with The Glass Menagerie and won Pulitzer prizes for his stage masterpieces, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but Tennessee Williams was plagued by self-doubt, previously unpublished letters reveal.The American dramatist\u2019s lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}