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Mar 26, 1911 Columbus, Mississippi, United States Died on 25 Feb 1983 (aged 71)
American playwright
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About Tennessee Williams
- Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright.
- Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.After years of obscurity, at age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City.
- This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background.
- It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961).
- With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences.
- His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema.
- He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs.
- In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
