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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.
Mar 20, 2020 · The famous playwright died alone in his room at 71, after using a nasal spray bottle to administer barbiturates. He had struggled with mental health, substance abuse, and the loss of his lovers in his later years.
- Tom Meisfjord
Feb 26, 2013 · The playwright, who wrote classics like \"A Streetcar Named Desire\" and \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\", was 71 when he was found dead in his room at the Hotel Elysée on Feb. 25, 1983. He had struggled with depression, alcoholism and a hate-fueled attack in his later years.
Tennessee Williams Is Dead at 71. 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.
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.
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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.'
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Feb 8, 1999 · Born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, Tennessee was the son of a shoe company executive and a Southern belle.
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