Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival

The Festival takes place on one (usually) sultry weekend in March when the most illustrious and freshest names in the literary, theatrical, and cultural spheres descend on the French Quarter for five days of festivities.

In 2013, we're thrilled to present a line-up that includes four Pulitzer Prize winners - author and judge of our Fiction Contest Michael Cunningham, playwright Marsha Norman, journalist and novelist Leonard Pitts, and Oscar-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley, plus Emily Mann, the director of recent all-black production of A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway; Don Murray, who starred in Bus Stop with Marilyn Monroe, and in the debut production of Tennessee Williams' Rose Tattoo on Broadway; Mad Men star Bryan Batt; and the debut author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie who Oprah picked for her Book Club 2.0 selection, Ayana Mathis. For a full view of all our speakers and panels, please see our program.

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