Tennessee Williams's playwriting career spanned more than four decades and was marked by the highest acclaim, as well as the kind of critical controversy that is generated only by one whose achievements have been widely recognized and lauded. This...

Tennessee Williams's playwriting career, already spanning more than four decades, has been marked by the highest acclaim, as well as the kind of critical controversy that is generated only by one whose achievements have been widely recognized and...

The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly Last Summer: these plays are considered among the classics of twentieth-century American theatre. Their author, Tennessee Williams, while benefiting from the success of...

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), dramatist and fiction writer, was one of America's major mid-20th-century playwrights. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911. Interestingly enough, he originally...