Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He died on February 25, 1983. Three of his most acclaimed plays were A Streetcar Named Desire(1947), The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). He won two Pulitzer Prizes and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. A Streetcar Named Desire was about the downfall of a woman living with delusions of grandeur. The Glass Menagerie was about a poet trapped in a mundane existence and his dysfunctional family. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was about the story of the relationship between a gigolo and a fading actress and in part with the dysfunctional Southern family. Two details that I found that were interesting was that William's family were models for many characters in his plays and the writing of short stories was his escape from his unhappy adolescence.