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  1. 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.

  2. Jul 25, 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.

  3. 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.'

  4. 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...

  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.

  6. Tennessee Williams. Writer: A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams met long-term partner Frank Merlo in the summer of 1948 (Merlo died of lung cancer in the fall of 1963). Though separated briefly in 1961 and again in 1962, the two were partners for 15 years.

  7. 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.

  8. His craftsmanship and vision marked Tennessee Williams as one of the most talented playwrights in contemporary theater. His dramas, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are among the most acclaimed dramas ever performed on Broadway.

  9. Mar 26, 2011 · Tennessee Williams, born 100 years ago March 26, changed the course of American theater with titanic, intensely human dramas including The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire.

  10. Considered by many to be Americas greatest playwright, Williams is best known for his award-winning powerful plays, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “The Glass Menagerie.”.

  11. Important information about Tennessee Williams's background, historical events that influenced A Streetcar Named Desire, and the main ideas within the work.

  12. Jan 18, 2022 · Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams 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.

  13. Aug 28, 2013 · Tennessee Williams. Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was an American playwright and author with famous works including Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for each of those works, as well as a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for The Glass Menagerie ...

  14. 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.

  15. Tennessee Williams, the 20th century author, poet, and playwright has cemented his place as significant part of American culture. The Pulitzer Prize winner is celebrated to this day.

  16. Dec 31, 2019 · 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.

  17. Mar 28, 2018 · “The newest writing talent in the American theatre is that of Tennessee Williams. His The Glass Menagerie was a lyric fragment of limited scope but undeniable poignancy. Tennessee Williams’ latest play— A Streetcar Named Desire —stands very high among the creative contributions of the American theatre since 1920.

  18. Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). Marlon Brando starred as the sexual and brutal Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway version and in the censored 1951 movie co-starring Vivien Leigh.

  19. Oct 27, 2023 · From his birth into a genteel Southern family, through his success, celebrity, and wealth, to his drug addictions, promiscuity, and creative struggles, Tennessee Williams lived a life as gripping as his plays.

  20. Tennessee Williams created a colorful cast of outcasts and escapistscharacters who invent beautiful fantasy worlds in order to survive their difficult and sometimes ugly lives. Yet, despite their circumstances, they speak in beautiful, lyrical language.

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