Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams


     Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in

Columbus, Mississippi.  As a child, he lived with his mother and grandfather.

When he was fourteen, Williams too first place in an essay contest sponsored by

a national magazine, The Smart Set.  At the age of seventeen, his first

published story appeared in the August 1928 issue of Weird Tales.  A year later

Williams entered the University of Missouri but in 1932 he withdrew and took a

job at the shoe factory where his father held a job as a sales manager.     In

1935 Williams returned to college and graduated from the University of Iowa in

1938.  Williams had begun writing plays while attending the University of

Missouri and after his graduation he had supported himself doing a variety of

small jobs.  In 1939 he won a national drama award for a group of plays called

American Blues.  Williams achieved his first great stage success with The Glass

Menagerie, which was produced in New York City in 1945.  This play won the New

York Drama Critics' Circle Prize as the years best play.  Williams averaged two

plays a year since that time.  On February 4, 1983, Tennessee Williams died in

New York City.  Throughout Williams' lifetime he has put forth more than twenty-

five full-length plays, more than forty short plays, a dozen produced (and

unproduced) screenplays and an opera libretto.  These have been translated into

at least twenty-seven languages, including Tamil, Welsh, Marathi and Hindi.  In

addition, there are two novels, a novella, more than sixty short stories, more

than one hundred poems, an autobiographThis is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!


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