Biographies: Tennessee Williams - Writer

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American playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), was born in Columbus, Mississippi, to a family of three children, of whom he was the second. He graduated in 1938 from the University of Iowa. He is best known for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Period of adjustment (1962), and Cat on Fire (1977). Williams died in New York, leaving twenty-five complete plays, two novels, a short novel, sixty short stories, more than a hundred poems, and one autobiographical book.

• 23 September 2021
• Toqa Hesham