Peggy L. Fox is the former president and publisher of New Directions, was Tennessee Williams’s last editor, and is James Laughlin’s literary coexecutor. She lives in Athens, New York. Thomas Keith began his association with James Laughlin, Peggy L. Fox, and New Directions in 1987 and has edited the Tennessee Williams titles for New Directions since 2002. He works as a consultant, editor, and acting teacher in New York City.

"Ultimately these letters show us that while Tennessee Williams’s own tragic ending left theatre the poorer for it, their unique insight in to one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century leaves us all the richer."