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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 …show more content…

PLAYS Baby Doll & Tiger Tail Camino Real Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Clothes for a
Summer Hotel Dragon Country The Glass Menagerie A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
The Read Devil Battery Sign Small Craft Warnings Stopped Rocking and Other
Screenplays A Streetcar Named Desire Sweet Bird of Youth THE THEATER OF
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME 1 Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, The
Glass Menagerie THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME II The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real THE THEATER OF
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME III Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending,
Suddenly Last Summer THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME IV Sweet Bird of
Youth, Period of Adjustment, The Night of the guana THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE
WILLIAMS, VOLUME V The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Kingdom of Earth
(The Seven Descents of Myrtle), Small Craft Warnings, The Two-Character Play THE
THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME VI 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other
Short Plays THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME VII In the Bar of a Tokyo
Hotel and Other Plays THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME VIII Vieux Carre,
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, Clothes for a Summer Hotel, The Red Devil
Battery Sign 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays The Two-Character Play
Vieux Carre POETRY

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