Unpublished Tennessee Williams short story sees the light of day after 80 years

Crazy Nights, written in the 1930s, to be published in US magazine The Strand

An unpublished short story by the playwright Tennessee Williams, in which a college freshman recounts the details of a romance that reaches "the ultimate degree of intimacy" before ending, will finally be revealed to the public around 80 years after the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof author penned it.

Like the character of Blanche DuBois from his play A Streetcar Named Desire, said to have been inspired by his mother, and Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie, believed to have been modelled on his sister, the story, Crazy Night, draws upon another real woman from Williams's life: this time, his college girlfriend. Thought to have been written in the 1930s, the tale is told by a college freshman, and will be published for the first time in the spring issue of the American magazine The Strand.