Williams's deepest attachment was to his sister, Rose, institutionalized in the 1930s and lobotomized after accusing her father of sexual abuse. Born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911, his mother was a prim minister's daughter, his father a tough shoe salesman who called his son "Miss Nancy." In the autobiographical The Glass Menagerie (1945), Williams includes his father only as a smiling photograph on the wall, a case of artistic wishful thinking. Like many Nineteenth Century writers who were celebrities as well as artists, particularly writers whose work is often autobiographical, Williams's life is almost as well known as his work. CAPITALIZED NAMES refer to related articles in the book. Summers (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), which is the best references work on GLBT Literature. From The Gay & Lesbian Literary Heritage, ed.
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