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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. Dec 31, 2019 · Fast Facts: Tennessee Williams. Full Name: Thomas Lanier Williams III. Known For: Pulitzer-Prize-winning American playwright whose plays explored the charming façade and the actual decay of the South, difficult women, and queerness. Born: March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. Parents: Edwina Dakin and Cornelius Coffin “C.C.” Williams.

  3. Tennessee Williams Biography. Born: March 26, 1914. 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 ...

  4. 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…

  5. 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. Because his father, Cornelius, a traveling ...

  6. www.encyclopedia.com › american-literature-biographies › tennessee-williamsTennessee Williams | Encyclopedia.com

    Jun 27, 2018 · 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.

  7. He was born Thomas Lanier Williams, III in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911, to Cornelius Williams, a traveling salesman who denigrated his sensitive son, who was homosexual, as "Miss Nancy," and the former Edwina Dakin, who like many of her son's heroines thought of herself as a Southern belle.

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