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The International Tennessee Williams Society exists to promote the work—theater, prose fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writing—of one of America’s most important writers. In a spirit of collegiality, it further aims to encourage and acknowledge academic scholarship, draw attention to new publications and critical directions in the field, and to publicize and, wherever possible, review productions of Williams’s plays across the world. Through its regularly updated website, the Society offers both orientation for those new to Williams and invaluable information to scholars, practitioners, and casual readers/theatergoers alike concerning: the writer’s life and work, including a guide to useful archival holdings; film adaptations of his plays and fiction; and conferences (together with calls for papers) and festivals. The website also provides a link to the only publication devoted to the author, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and to The Historical New Orleans Collection (THNOC) that publishes it.