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Definition: Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) from Philip's Encyclopedia

US playwright. His first Broadway play, The Glass Menagerie (1945), received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. He received Pulitzer Prizes for A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). His other plays include Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) and The Night of the Iguana (1961). Many of his plays were set in the South, in a cloying and repressive environment that reflected the plight of the characters.

WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) (1911–1983)

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Major American playwright and a significant fiction writer and poet. Born in Mississippi—the setting, along with New Orleans and St. Louis, of many of his most important plays—Williams has been considered to be a Southern writer, but his influence, as the leading proponent of post-World War II psychological realism, has been international. A prolific writer, Williams produced about seventy plays, including some one-acts, revisions, and works apparently lost and not yet published, as well as three novels, six volumes of short stories, two of poetry, and one of memoirs. Awarded both a Group Theatre and a Rockefeller grant in 1939, he had his first major professional production in 1944, The Glass Menagerie , which was followed by a string of critical and popular successes for the next two decades: A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Summer and Smoke (1952), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and Night of the Iguana…
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Full text Article Williams (Tennessee) New Orleans Literary Festival

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Admirers of the work of American playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) gather together to celebrate his work— and that of other southern writers—at the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival. The five-day event, scheduled in late March, features performances of plays, master classes, …
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