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John Lahr

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New Yorker writer, drama critic, author, trout-fisherman, grandfather. Author of Tennessee Williams biography Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
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Relatable as a Jellyfish

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By John Lahr
| London Review of Books Verified
Those​ who were born in the US in the early 1940s, as I was, came of age in the most buoyant period of the 20th century. In the years between 1945 and 1960, personal income almost tripled. Philip Roth called it the greatest moment of ‘collective inebriation in American history’. After the Great Depression and two world wars, the middle classes were beginning to live America’s dream of prosperity; the less fortunate didn’t yet seem to be spoiling the charm of abundance.
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The Best Tennessee Williams Books

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By Tennessee Williams, John Lahr, Cal Flyn
| Five Books
You recently published an academic monograph, Tennessee Williams’ America: Homes, Families, Exiles. What drew you to Tennessee Williams—would you begin by introducing our readers to Williams and his work? I think his significance as a playwright speaks for itself: he’s a monumentally revered, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a major figure in 20th-century American drama—not least because his career spans from the early 1930s right through until the early 1980s.
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“Giant” Takes on Roald Dahl and His Antisemitism

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By John Lahr
| The New Yorker Verified
Novelists never get to see readers applaud their works—or walk out of them—but playwrights do. The dramatist’s encounter with the audience, whether disappointing or exhilarating, is a unique, indelible experience.
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