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  2. Sep 21, 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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  3. 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. [1]

  4. 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.'

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

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  7. The persona named Tennessee Williams had achieved the status of a myth. Williams drew from the experiences of his persona. He saw himself as a shy, sensitive, gifted man trapped in a world where “mendacity” replaced communication, brute violence replaced love, and loneliness was, all too often, the standard human condition.

  8. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams III in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911. His friends began calling him Tennessee in college, in honor of his Southern accent and his father’s home state. Williams’s father, C.C. Williams, was a traveling salesman and a heavy drinker.