The book, titled The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, casts new light on his life and work.
In a poignant letter in 1960, he wrote: “I am tired of writing and writing is tired of me.”
He 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A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but Tennessee Williams was plagued by self-doubt, previously unpublished letters reveal.