In Memorium: Allean Hale -- Tennessee Williams Scholar -- and My Mentor in Pursuing Crimes of the Episcopal Church Regarding Tennessee Williams's Murder

Allean Hale with Tom Mitchell in 2005 -- both Professors of Theater at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Allean Hale

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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Allean Lemmon Hale, 100, died Saturday,
April 18, 2015, at Lenoir Woods Senior Living in Columbia, Mo.

A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 2, in the
Dorsey Hall Chapel of Columbia College in Columbia, Mo.
The Rev. Brad Stagg will preside. A celebration of her life in
Urbana is planned for later this fall. Contact Mark Hale
(mark-hale@uiowa.edu, 319-621-9757) for further information.

From the early 1980s on, she focused almost exclusively on the life and works of Tennessee Williams, and became a leading authority on his early life and on his late plays. She made significant contributions to Lyle Leverich's official biography of Williams, and edited and wrote introductions for several New Directions Press editions of Williams' plays. She was an adjunct professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois, where she advised on productions of several of the early full-length plays by Williams. She produced dozens of articles and conference presentations on Williams.

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