Brenda Murphy Brenda Murphy is the author of American Realism and American Drama, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, 1987), Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre (Cambridge, 1992), and, with George Monteiro, the editor of Joh Hay—Howells Letters (Twayne, 1980). She is professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Read More Read Less