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  1. Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

  2. May 19, 2024 · Tennessee Williams (1911–83) was an American dramatist whose best-known plays include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His work reveals a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentility.

  3. Aug 10, 2023 · Tennessee Williams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose works include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'

  4. Feb 8, 1999 · He was Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, Tennessee was the son of a shoe company executive...

  5. Dec 31, 2019 · Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911—February 25, 1983) was an American playwright, essayist, and memoirist best known for his plays set in the South. Much of Williams’ oeuvre was adapted for the cinema.

  6. Tennessee Williams. 1911–1983. Playwright Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. After studying at the University of Missouri in Columbia and Washington University in St. Louis, he earned a BA from the University of Iowa in 1938.

  7. Tennessee Williams. Writer: A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams met long-term partner Frank Merlo in the summer of 1948 (Merlo died of lung cancer in the fall of 1963). Though separated briefly in 1961 and again in 1962, the two were partners for 15 years.

  8. www.encyclopedia.com › american-literature-biographies › tennessee-williamsTennessee Williams | Encyclopedia.com

    Jun 27, 2018 · Tennessee Williams, dramatist and fiction writer, was one of America's major mid-twentieth-century playwrights. He is best known for his powerful plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Becoming Tennessee.

  9. Considered by many to be Americas greatest playwright, Williams is best known for his award-winning powerful plays, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “The Glass Menagerie.”.

  10. Aug 28, 2013 · Tennessee Williams. Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was an American playwright and author with famous works including Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for each of those works, as well as a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for The Glass Menagerie ...

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