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Tennessee Williams
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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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- Born
- 26 March 1911
- Died
- 25 February 1983
- Works
- 345
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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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- human
- Family name
- Williams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Columbus
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- writer
- Employer
- The New School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Student of
- Erwin Piscator
- Field of work
- performing arts
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- Tennessee Williams NYWTS.jpg
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- Tennessee Williams
- date of birth
- 1914-03-26
- date of death
- 1985-02-25
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- accidental death
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- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play
- influenced by
- Hart Crane
- name in native language
- Tennessee Williams
- start of work period
- 1930-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- birth name
- Thomas Lanier Williams
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- personal library at
- Harry Ransom Center
- related category
- Category:Films with screenplays by Tennessee Williams
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- Silk Road
- cause of death
- choking
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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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