This is a reissue of the first biography of American theatre pioneer 
Margo Jones, whose Dallas theatre established in 1947 was the first 
modern professional resident theatre in the U.S., the model for more 
than 450 such theatres in the country today. Margo was mentor to 
playwrights William Inge, Horton Foote, Jerome Lawrence, and 
Robert E. Lee, as well as Tennessee Williams, whose The Glass 
Menagerie she co-directed in its first Broadway production.

    "A beautiful, truthful and important biography of one of the seminal 
figures in the flowering of American and worldwide dramatic literature."
—Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, authors of the classic drama 
Inherit the Wind

    "The figure Sheehy evokes is part rattlesnake, part cowgirl, part 
southern lady.  Sheehy lets us see the wildness in Jones for the 
spark it gave to others as well as for the destruction it wreaked on 
her."—American Theatre

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HELEN SHEEHY is the author of two other biographies, Eva Le 
Gallienne and Eleonora Duse, and All About Theatre. She lives in 
Hamden, Connecticut. EMILY MANN is the artistic director of 
McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. She is the author 
of Testimonies: Four Plays. In 2003 she was honored with the 
Edward Albee Directing Award.