Tennessee Williams
Carr first met Tennessee Williams in the early 1970s when she was in the preparatory stages of writing her biography on Carson McCullers, The Lonely Hunter.
Over the years, the two of them meet many times to discuss McCullers as well as other literary luminaries of Williams’ social circle. As a result, a friendship ensued and Carr, ultimately, garnered the rights to write Williams' biography.
Williams said upon his first meeting with Carr:
| “ | She had not told me what color hat or dress she’d be wearing or where she’d be seated, but despite my rather poor eyesight, I spotted her at once. Her face had a certain smile which gave it a certain charm and within a minute or two I had dismissed my reluctance to share with her my many reminiscences of Carson, for I knew at once that this lady from Georgia, Carson’s native state, was someone who valued the spirit and the writing of Mrs. McCullers as deeply as I did, and it seemed to me that the preparation of this biographical and critical work had been undertaken by Mrs. Carr much in the way that the devout once made pilgrimages to sanctified places.
I pause here, for a moment, knowing that I will certainly be accused of romantic excess. |
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—Tennessee Williams' "Some Words Before," in The Loney Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, 1974, |
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