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  2. Tennessee Williams. 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.

  3. Mar 20, 2020 · Central Press/Getty Images. Tennessee Williams was 71-years-old at the time of his passing, and he'd had a rough couple of decades. His incredible success in the 1940s had given way to relative obscurity and a series of failed plays. His mental health was, by most accounts, in a state of cascade failure: his difficulties with substance abuse ...

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  4. Feb 26, 2013 · NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- On Feb. 25, 1983 -- 30 years ago Monday -- playwright Tennessee Williams was found dead in his home at the iconic Hotel Elysée in Midtown Manhattan. Williams was 71 when ...

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  6. 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.' Search. ... Death date: February 25, 1983 ...

  7. ennessee Williams, whose innovative drama and sense of lyricism were a major force in the postwar American theater, died yesterday at the age of 71. He was found dead about 10:45 A.M. in his suite in the Hotel Elysee on East 54th Street. Officials said that death was due to natural causes, and that he had been under treatment for heart disease ...

  8. Dec 6, 2018 · Tennessee Williams, American playwright. Williams’s own life was not without high drama. By the 1960s his health had deteriorated, due, in large part, to years of abusing sleeping pills and liquor, he was struggling with depression — particularly after the death of his longtime partner, Frank Merlo, in 1963 — and his career was in decline.

  9. Dec 31, 2019 · At the time of his death, Tennessee Williams was working on a play titled In Masks Outrageous and Austere, an attempt to come to terms with some facts of his personal life. Gore Vidal completed the play in 2007, and, while Peter Bogdanovic was the director originally appointed to direct the stage debut, when it premiered on Broadway in April ...

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