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Tennessee Williams

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 25 1911
Died
2424 02 19831983
Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth.

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Sweet Bird of Youth , and The Night of the Iguana . With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal 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.

Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

From Wikipedia

Tennessee Williams

3.9/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 25 1911
Died
2424 02 19831983
Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth.

Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Sweet Bird of Youth , and The Night of the Iguana . With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal 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.

Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

From Wikipedia

Books from Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

4/5 ( ratings)

Suddenly Last Summer

3.9/5 ( ratings)

A Streetcar Named Desire

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Summer and Smoke

4/5 ( ratings)

A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Sweet Bird of Youth

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Rose Tattoo

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Orpheus Descending

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

4/5 ( ratings)

Plays 1937-1955

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Camino Real

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Four Plays: Summer and Smoke / Orpheus Descending / Suddenly Last Summer / Period of Adjustment

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Plays 1957-1980

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Hard Candy

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Moise and the World of Reason

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Six Great Modern Plays

3.7/5 ( ratings)

French Quarter Fiction: The Newest Stories of America's Oldest Bohemia

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Night of the Iguana

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Collected Poems

4.1/5 ( ratings)
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