Hansen Publishing Group authors shine at Tennessee Williams Festival

The Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival (March 21-25, 2012) has begun in New Orleans and several Hansen Publishing Group’s authors are participating in the festivities as presenters, panelists and moderators.

JOHN DILEO is moderating “Tennessee Williams, Gerontologist?” on Saturday at 10 am. Then he presents “Streetcar is that You?: The On-Screen Imitators of Williams’ Master Works” on Saturday at 2:30 pm.

John DiLeo is the author of Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery, Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors. His newest book, Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, releases on May 1, 2012. He frequently hosts classic-film series, appears on radio programs, lectures on cruise ships, conducts film-history seminars, and is an annual participant in the Black Bear Film Festival. His website is johndileo.com and his blog is screensaversmovies.com.

Kenneth Holditch is doing an introduction to the “Tennessee Williams Literary Walking Tour” which is offered on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at various times. He is co-author with Richard Freeman Leavitt of The World of Tennessee Williams.

A resident of New Orleans, much of Kenneth Holditch’s work revolves around Tennessee Williams scholarship, including being editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal,  and co-editor with Mel Gussow of the Library of America edition of Williams’ writings. He is also a professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans. Holditch also collaborated with Richard Freeman Leavitt on another Tennessee Williams book, Tennessee Williams and the South.

David Kaplan is appearing on two panels: “Tennessee Williams, Gerontologist?” on Saturday at 10 am and then on “An American Abroad: International Williams” on Saturday at 11:30 am.

David Kaplan is the author of the books Tenn at One Hundred: The Reputation of Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams in Provincetown and various articles about Williams, Eudora Welty, the Japanese artist Ito Jakuchu, and productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Central Asia. He is curator and co-founder of the annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival now in its seventh year. He has staged plays by Williams throughout the world: Suddenly Last Summer in Russia, performed in the Russian language at the Gorky Theater in Samara, Russia; The Eccentricities of a Nightingale performed in Cantonese at the acclaimed Hong Kong Repertory Theater. In America he staged the world premieres of Williams’ The Day on Which a Man Dies (in Chicago) and The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View (in Boston).

The books of all three authors will be available for sale at the festival bookstore.