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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tennessee_WilliamsTennessee Williams - Wikipedia

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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.

   • Years active: 1930–1983

   • Born: Thomas Lanier Williams III, March 26, 1911, Columbus, Mississippi, U.S.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Tennessee-WilliamsTennessee Williams | Plays, Education, Biography, & Facts

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   Apr 16, 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 · Learn about the life and works of Tennessee Williams, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote classics like A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Explore his early years, commercial success, later struggles and legacy.

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6. www.thoughtco.com › biography-of-tennesseeBiography of Tennessee Williams, American Playwright - ThoughtCo

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   Dec 31, 2019 · Playright Tennessee Williams and his grandparents Walter Dakin and Rose O. Dakin pose for a portrait circa 1945 in New York City, New York. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images In 1929, Williams enrolled at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he wrote his first submitted play, Beauty Is The Word (1930).

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   Learn about the life and career of Tennessee Williams, one of America's major playwrights of the 20th century. Explore his poems, plays, novels, short stories, and essays that reflect his poetic vision and personal struggles.

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   Where did Tennessee Williams go after college?

   • After college, Tennessee Williams moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire much of his writing. On March 31, 1945, his play, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway and two years later A Streetcar Named Desire earned Williams his first Pulitzer Prize.

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   Does Tennessee Williams portray social reality?

   • Yet Arthur Miller himself wrote in The Theatre Essays of Tennessee Williams that although Williams might not portray social reality, “the intensity with which he feels whatever he does feel is so deep, is so great” that his audiences glimpse another kind of reality, “the reality in the spirit.”

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   Who were Tennessee Williams parents?

   • Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His parents were Edwina Dakin and Cornelius Coffin “C.C.” Williams. He was close to his maternal grandparents, Rose and Reverend Walter Dakin, and his family lived in the reverend’s parsonage for much of his early childhood.

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   Did Tennessee Williams have a typewriter?

   • The Tennessee Williams Key West Exhibit on Truman Avenue houses rare Williams memorabilia, photographs, and pictures including his famous typewriter. At the time of his death, Williams had been working on a final play, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, which attempted to reconcile certain forces and facts of his own life.

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9. www.pbs.org › wnet › americanmastersTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage - PBS

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   Feb 8, 1999 · Learn about the life and work of one of the greatest playwrights in American history, who created memorable characters like Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. Explore his achievements, challenges, and struggles in this brief biography.

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    Learn about the life and works of the acclaimed American playwright, who won two Pulitzer Prizes and wrote classics such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Glass Menagerie". Explore his personal struggles, influences, relationships, and legacy.