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  1. Education. From 1929 to 1931, Williams attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he enrolled in journalism classes. [15] . He was bored by his classes and distracted by unrequited love for a girl. Soon he began entering his poetry, essays, stories, and plays in writing contests, hoping to earn extra income.

  2. Sep 21, 2024 · Williams became interested in playwriting while at the University of Missouri (Columbia) and Washington University (St. Louis) and worked at it even during the Great Depression while employed in a St. Louis shoe factory.

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  3. Aug 10, 2023 · After college, Tennessee Williams moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire much of his writing. On March 31, 1945, his play, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway and two years later...

  4. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1914, the second of three children of Cornelius and Edwina Williams. His father, a traveling salesman, was rarely home and for many years the family lived with his mother's parents.

  5. Feb 8, 1999 · Williams’ early adult years were occupied with attending college at three different universities, a brief stint working at his father’s shoe company, and a move to New Orleans, which began a...

  6. Aug 28, 2013 · Williams started college at the University of Missouri, Washington University where he formed a close group of authors. He transferred to the University of Iowa where he earned a BA in 1938. After college, he briefly worked for a shoe company before he moved to New Orleans.

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  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.