Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), born Thomas Lanier in Columbus, Mississippi, won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Other plays include The Glass Menagerie , Summer and Smoke , The Rose Tattoo , Camino Real , Suddenly Last Summer , Sweet Bird of Youth , and Night of the Iguana . He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems, and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason . He died at the age of...See more

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), born Thomas Lanier in Columbus, Mississippi, won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . Other plays include The Glass Menagerie , Summer and Smoke , The Rose Tattoo , Camino Real , Suddenly Last Summer , Sweet Bird of Youth , and Night of the Iguana . He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems, and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason . He died at the age of seventy-two. See less