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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. Jul 25, 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.

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  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. Important information about Tennessee Williams's background, historical events that influenced A Streetcar Named Desire, and the main ideas within the work.

  5. Feb 8, 1999 · He was derided by critics and blacklisted by Roman Catholic Cardinal Spellman, who condemned one of his scripts as “revolting, deplorable, morally repellent, offensive to Christian standards of...

  6. 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.

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  8. Tennessee Williams, the 20th century author, poet, and playwright has cemented his place as significant part of American culture. The Pulitzer Prize winner is celebrated to this day.

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