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  1. Columbus, Mississippi. Died: February 25, 1983. New York, New York. American dramatist, playwright, and writer. 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.

  2. 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 and...

  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. Fast Facts: Tennessee Williams. Full Name: Thomas Lanier Williams III.

  4. Home. Literature Notes. A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams Biography. The following abbreviated biography of Tennessee Williams is provided so that you might become more familiar with his life and the historical times that possibly influenced his writing.

  5. 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. He then moved to New Orleans, one of two places where he was for the rest of his life to feel at home.

  6. Tennessee Williams Biography. 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 · Died: February 25, 1983. New York, New York. American dramatist, playwright, and writer. 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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