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.

Dec 10, 2024 · Tennessee Williams (1911–83) was an American dramatist whose best-known plays include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His work reveals a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentility.

Aug 10, 2023 · Tennessee Williams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose works include 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'

Feb 8, 1999 · He was Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911, Tennessee was the son of a shoe company...

Aug 28, 2013 · Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was an American playwright and author with famous works including Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Jun 27, 2018 · Tennessee Williams, dramatist and fiction writer, was one of America's major mid-twentieth-century playwrights. He is best known for his powerful plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

His craftsmanship and vision marked Tennessee Williams as one of the most talented playwrights in contemporary theater. His dramas, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are among the most acclaimed dramas ever performed on Broadway.

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.

Considered by many to be America’s greatest playwright, Williams is best known for his award-winning powerful plays, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “The Glass Menagerie.”

Born Thomas Lanier Williams III in Mississippi, Williams later adopted the pen name “Tennessee” after he began his writing career. Williams’s early life was fraught with family dysfunction. Williams’s father was a shoe salesman who struggled with alcoholism and at times exhibited violent tendencies.