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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Thomas Lanier “TennesseeWilliams III (b. 1911–d. 1983) was a poet, fiction writer, and playwright. Born in Columbus, Mississippi, Williams was raised in his grandfather’s Episcopalian rectory in Clarksdale, where he lived with his mother Edwina, sister Rose, and beloved maternal grandparents.

  5. Tennessee Williams. Jump to Edit. Overview. Born. March 26, 1911 · Columbus, Mississippi, USA. Died. February 25, 1983 · New York City, New York, USA (after choking on a bottle cap) Birth name. Thomas Lanier Williams. Nickname. The Bird. Height. 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) Mini Bio.

  6. Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911. The name given to him at birth was Thomas Lanier Williams III. He did not acquire the nickname Tennessee until college, when classmates began calling him that in honor of his Southern accent and his father’s home state.

  7. 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.

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