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Tennessee Williams

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Also known as Thomas Lanier Williams III, Thomas Williams

American playwright (1911–1983)

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Tennessee Williams was an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and poet. Born Thomas Williams in Columbus, he held United States citizenship. He was educated at the University of Iowa, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Missouri, and The New School. His notable works include The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Williams received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play, Kennedy Center Honors, and Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a Tony Award for Best Play. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Influenced by Anton Chekhov, D. H. Lawrence, and Hart Crane, he resided in Clarksdale, Columbus, New Orleans, and St. Louis. He died in New York City in 1983.

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Person · Open Library

Born
26 March 1911
Died
25 February 1983
Works
345

Top works

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  • Cat on a hot tin roof
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Writing · Columbus, Mississippi, USA

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. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass…

Known for

  • Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation — Self - Playwright (archive footage)2021
  • Beautiful Darling — Self (archive footage)2010
  • The Yellow Bird — Narrator (voice)2002
  • Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage — Self (archive footage)1994
  • The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978
  • Midi Première — Self1975
  • Tennessee Williams' South1973
  • Begegnung mit Tennessee Williams — Self - Interviewee1972
  • The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
  • Small World — Self1958

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1911
Active to
1983
2008 universal fire victimacademy award winneramericanamerican composercinematic classicalclassical
Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
425
Total plays
2,252

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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pseudonym Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. The name "Tennessee" was a name given to him by college friends because of his southern accent and his father's background in Tennessee. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1948 and for "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" in 1955. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tennessee+Williams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

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Quotes

  • “I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”
  • “Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”
  • “The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”
  • “Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
  • “The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”
  • “I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding&mdash;not even that&mdash;no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Writing his first play in 1930, Williams' work did not gain much traction until 1944 with the success of The Glass Menagerie. His next plays, 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), were also successful and widely acclaimed. With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely 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.

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