Orpheus Ascending

“There are rare people who make you believe in God. I think continually of them so that I can go on.” 

Tennessee Williams, Five O'Clock Angel, Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just

Tanaquil Le Clercq, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, et al, Café Nicholson, 1949; Photograph by Karl Bissinger

For Gore Vidal's recollections on this photograph, see The Luminous Years, Portraits at Mid-Century by Karl Bissinger (the copy listed on our website is from Vidal's personal collection with his bookstamp) or "Salad Days" from the October 2007 issue of Smithsonian Magazine.

Image Credit: The Luminous Years, Portraits at Mid-Century by Karl Bissinger