1. Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams. Thomas Lanier ( Tennessee ) Williams, b. Columbus, Miss., Mar. 26, 1911, d. Feb. Bibliography Falk, Signi L., Tennessee Williams, rev. http://gatewayno.com/culture/TWilliams.html

Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams , b. Columbus, Miss., Mar. 26, 1911, d. Feb. 25, 1983, was an outstanding American playwright and the author of film scripts, short stories, novels, and verse. He was known for his innovations in theatrical technique, as well as for his Southern idioms, compelling dialogue, and themes thatfor their timeoften seemed strange or shocking. Williams vividly conveyed the sexual tensions and suppressed violence of his tormented characters, usually with compassion as well as irony. He won Pulitzer Prizes for A Streetcar Named Desire and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Many believed that THE GLASS MENAGERIE deserved one as well. During the Depression Williams worked as a factory hand and, after attending the University of Missouri and Washington University, graduated from the University of Iowa in 1938. Writing under his nickname, Tennessee, he began his career auspiciously with a Group Theater award (1939) for four one-act plays later published (1948) under the collective title American Blues. After a disappointment in his first professional production, Battle of Angels (1940), Williams combined semiautobiographical material with innovative technique in The Glass Menagerie (1945; film, 1950), and with this secured both that year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and lasting fame in the American theater. Themes of Sexual Frustration The unsuccessful dramatization of a D. H. Lawrence story, You Touched Me! (1945), on which Williams collaborated with Donald Windham, was followed by the first of a series of plays dealing with sexual frustration, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947; film, 1951), the most effective of all Williams's works. A compelling portrait of personal disintegration, this drama, like The Glass Menagerie and most of Williams's subsequent plays, has a cast of naturalistic characters whose personalities are illuminated by imaginative staging. Williams studied the problems of solitary women in two more plays: Summer and Smoke (1948; revised as The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, 1965), a melodrama in which a Southern spinster attempts to ignore the sensual side of her nature, and The Rose Tattoo (1951; film, 1955), a lusty comedy in which a mature widow, after a long inner struggle, rediscovers love.

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Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams March 26 February 25 ), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams , was a noted playwright . The nickname "Tennessee" was given to him by schoolmates in St. Louis for his southern accent. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for a Cat on A Hot Tin Roof in and for A Streetcar Named Desire in . Genre critics maintain that Williams writes in the Southern Gothic style. Tennessee Williams' family was a troubled one, and provided inspiration for much of his writings. His father, Cornelius Williams, was a travelling shoe salesman who grew increasingly abusive as his children grew older. Edwina Williams, Tennessee's mother, was a descendent of genteel southern life, and was somewhat smothering. Dakin Williams, Tennessee's brother, was often favored over Tennessee by their father. Rose Williams, Tennessee's sister, was perhaps the greatest influence on him. She was mentally ill and emotionally disturbed, spending most of her adult life in mental hospitals. Her parents eventually allowed a lobotomy in an effort to treat her. Tennessee never forgave his parents for allowing this. Characters in his plays are often seen to be direct representations of his family members. Laura Wingfeild in

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Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Deutsch Dansk Esperanto Tennessee Williams From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thomas Lanier Williams March 26 February 25 ), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams , was a noted playwright . The nickname "Tennessee" was given to him by schoolmates in St. Louis for his southern accent. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for a Cat on A Hot Tin Roof in and for A Streetcar Named Desire in . Genre critics maintain that Williams writes in the Southern Gothic style. For many years Williams lived in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana Tennessee Williams's family was a troubled one, and provided inspiration for much of his writings. His father, Cornelius Williams, was a travelling shoe salesman who grew increasingly abusive as his children grew older. Edwina Williams, Tennessee's mother, was a descendant of genteel southern life, and was somewhat smothering. Dakin Williams, Tennessee's brother, was often favored over Tennessee by their father. Rose Williams, Tennessee's sister, was perhaps the greatest influence on him. She was mentally ill and emotionally disturbed, spending most of her adult life in mental hospitals. Her parents eventually allowed a lobotomy in an effort to treat her. Tennessee never forgave his parents for allowing this. Characters in his plays are often seen to be direct representations of his family members. Laura Wingfield in

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Go to Publications Productions Bibliography Internet Resources See also: Writer News: Ole Miss library features Tennessee Williams exhibition (April 10, 2002) Ninth book conference to focus on Tennessee Williams (Feb. 14, 2002) 'Lost' Tennessee Williams play to be staged in U.K. (June 10, 1997) Book Info: The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams (November 2002) The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 1, 1920-1945 (September 2002) The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams (April 2002) Tennessee Williams and the South , by Kenneth W. Holditch and Richard Freeman Leavitt (April 2002) The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 1, 1920-1945 (November 2000) Not About Nightingales (June 1998) The Glass Menagerie (March 1998) The Notebook of Trigorin: A Free Adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull (November 1997) Home Browse Listings Authors Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus Clarksdale Smart Set.

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Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. The second of three children, his family life was full of tension. His parents, a shoe salesman and the daughter of a minister, often engaged in violent arguments that frightened his sister Rose. In 1927, Williams got his first taste of literary fame when he took third place in a national essay contest sponsored by The Smart Set magazine. In 1929, he was admitted to the University of Missouri where he saw a production of Henrik Ibsen 's Ghosts and decided to become a playwright. But his degree was interrupted when his father forced him to withdraw from college and work at the International Shoe Company. There he worked with a young man named Stanley Kowalski who would later resurface as a character in A Streetcar Named Desire Eventually, Tom returned to school. In 1937, he had two of his plays ( Candles to the Sun and The Fugitive Kind ) produced by Mummers of St. Louis, and in 1938, he graduated from the University of Iowa. After failing to find work in Chicago, he moved to New Orleans and changed his name from "Tom" to "Tennessee" which was the state of his father's birth.

17. Tennessee Williams egos. That is the way we all see each other in life. (tennessee williams in Elia Kazan s autobiography A Life, 1988). Thomas Lanier http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/williams.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) - original name Thomas Lanier Williams One of the most prominent playwrights in United States after World War II. After a severe mental and physical breakdown in the 1960s, Williams's plays were more or less unsuccessful. Williams examined in his controversial and poetic plays turbulent emotional and sexual forces, physical and spiritual needs, and created such unforgettable characters as Maggie in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (195) and Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1947). "There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts. Stanley sees Blanche not as a desperate, driven creature backed into a last corner to make a last desperate stand - but as a calculating bitch with 'round heels'.... Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life." (Tennessee Williams in Elia Kazan's autobiography A Life Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi. His mother, the former Edwina Estelle Dakin, was the daughter of an Episcopalian clergyman. She was always proud to say, "The Dakins could trace themselves back to the Normans." Williams's father, Cornelius Coffin Williams, was a travelling salesman for a shoe company. He could trace his ancestry back to the French Huguenots, and to politicians and soldiers in North Carolina and Tennessee. According to William's brother Dakin, their father was very bombastic, he cursed a lot and there was a great deal of coldness between him and his son, who loved books but was not interested in sports.

18. American Masters . Tennessee Williams | PBS He was brilliant and prolific, breathing life and passion into such memorable characters as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in his critically acclaimed A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. He was tennessee williams, one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Only three years later, tennessee williams died in a New York City hotel filled with half http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/williams_t.html

H e was brilliant and prolific, breathing life and passion into such memorable characters as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in his critically acclaimed A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And like them, he was troubled and self-destructive, an abuser of alcohol and drugs. He was awarded four Drama Critic Circle Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was derided by critics and blacklisted by Roman Catholic Cardinal Spellman, who condemned one of his scripts as "revolting, deplorable, morally repellent, offensive to Christian standards of decency." He was Tennessee Williams, one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi in 1914, Tennessee was the son of a shoe company executive and a Southern belle. Williams described his childhood in Mississippi as happy and carefree. This sense of belonging and comfort were lost, however, when his family moved to the urban environment of St. Louis, Missouri. It was there he began to look inward, and to write— "because I found life unsatisfactory." Williams’ early adult years were occupied with attending college at three different universities, a brief stint working at his father’s shoe company, and a move to New Orleans, which began a lifelong love of the city and set the locale for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Excerpt from the movie "Babydoll" Biography at Imagi-nation Williams Festival

19. Darryl E. Haley, Asst. Professor Of English, East Tennessee State University tennessee williams A Brief Biography, Photographs, Links, Scholarship (including my dissertation), and more! tennessee williams http://www.etsu.edu/haleyd/

Darryl E. Haley Click on the pictures to see related links and information in the following three areas: Tennessee Williams: A Brief Biography, Photographs, Links, Scholarship (including my dissertation), and more! Other Academic Pages: Personal Space: Including Family Photos, Genealogical Data, and My Favorite Minpin About Me: About Me: A native of Lonsdale, a few miles east of Hot Springs, AR, I recently completed the doctoral program in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Alabama. I am an Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. A native of Lonsdale, a few miles east of Hot Springs, AR, I recently completed the doctoral program in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Alabama. I am an Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. Tennessee Williams 'Certain Moral Values': A Rhetoric of Outcasts in the Plays of Tennessee Williams The Prospectus of My Dissertation (above) Essay: "A Brief Biography of Tennessee Williams" Essay: "Influences of Crane and Rilke in Williams's The Glass Menagerie Essay: "Women and Religion in Three Tennessee Williams Plays" under construction List: The Major Works of Tennessee Williams Some of My Tennessee Williams Related Photos Links to More Williams Information Back to Top...

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Member login: Username Password Cancel Membership Tell a Friend! Enter e-mail address: Search GradeSaver dictionary thesaurus Hosted by pair Networks Biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-83) Playwright, poet, and fiction writer, Tennessee Williams left a powerful mark on American theatre. At their best, his twenty-five full-length plays combined lyrical intensity, haunting loneliness, and hypnotic violence. He is widely considered the greatest Southern playwright and one of the greatest playwrights in the history of American drama. Born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911, he suffered through a difficult and troubling childhood. His father, Cornelius Williams, was a shoe salesman and an emotionally absent parent. He became increasingly abusive as the Williams children grew older. His mother, Edwina, was the daughter of Southern Episcopal minister and had lived the adolescence and young womanhood of a spoiled Southern belle. Williams was sickly as a child, and his mother was a loving but smothering woman. In 1918 the family moved from Mississippi to St. Louis, and the change from a small provincial town to a big city was very difficult for William¹s mother. Williams had an older sister named Rose and a younger brother named Walter. Rose was emotionally and mentally unstable, and her illnesses had a great influence on Thomas¹s life and work. In 1929, Williams enrolled in the University of Missouri. After two years he dropped out of school, compelled to do so by his father, and took a job in the warehouse of the same shoe company for which his father worked. He was an employee there for ten months, despising the job but working at the warehouse throughout the day and writing late into the night. The strain was too much, and Williams had a nervous breakdown. He recovered at the home of his grandparents, and during these years he continued to write. Amateur productions of his early plays were put on in Memphis and St. Louis. During this time, Rose¹s mental health continued to deteriorate. During a fight between Cornelius and Edwina, Cornelius made a move towards Rose that he claimed was meant to calm her. Rose thought his overtures were sexual and suffered a terrible breakdown. Her parents had her lobotomized shortly afterward.

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