What Does David Kaplan and Junot Diaz Have in Common?

What does David Kaplan and Junot Díaz have in common? Their books are on the nightstand of author and illustrator Brian Selznick, which he reveals in a New York Times interview “Brian Selznick: By the Book.” For David Kaplan, it’s his Tennessee Williams in Provincetown  which Selznick purchased in Provincetown this past summer. Thank you, Brian, we hope you enjoy it!

Besides its eye-catching cover sporting a young Tennessee Williams, with a very noticeable tan line, posing in the Provincetown sand dunes, David Kaplan’s Tennessee Williams in Provincetown covers the four years Tennessee Williams spent in Provincetown: 1940. ’41, ’44’ and ’47.  It was in Provincetown that Tennessee Williams worked on The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, the beginnings of The Night of the Iguana and Suddenly Last Summer, and an abandoned autobiographical play set in Provincetown, The Parade.

A special thank you to Provincetown’s two independent bookstores East End Books and Provincetown Bookshop for carrying David Kaplan’s Tennessee Williams in Provincetown, which is a perennial best seller Ptown.