Tennessee Williams was a poet, playwright, and author born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi. He published his first story at the age of sixteen. He attended the University of Missouri and Washington University before earning a BA from the State University of Iowa in 1938. This was also the year he published his first short story under his literary name.
Williams’ notable works include the stageplay A Streetcar Called Desire (1947), which won a Pulitzer Prize, the novel The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950), and the stageplay Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), which won another Pulitzer Prize.
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