Richard Freeman Leavitt
1929-2003
Richard Freeman Leavitt was born on March 30, 1929 in Colebrook, a small town in the “Great North Woods” of New Hampshire just south of Canada and the 45th parallel, half-way between the equator and the North Pole. He attended Colebrook schools and graduated in 1947. Following a brief time at the University of New Hampshire, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1949 to 1953.
Kenneth Holditch
A resident of New Orleans, Kenneth Holditch boasts many accolades in the literary circle. Much of his word revolves around Tennessee Williams scholarship, including being editor of the Tennessee Williams Journal and co-editor, along with Mel Gussow, of the Library of America edition of Williams’s writings. He is also a professor emeritus at the University of New Orleans. Holditch has previously collaborated with Richard Freeman Leavitt on another Tennessee Williams book, Tennessee Williams and the South.
