Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams, known as Tennessee, was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, the son of a travelling salesman and a clergyman's daughter. He worked in a shoe factory and did not obtain his degree, in Iowa, until the age of twenty-seven. His sister Rose underwent a lobotomy in 1943, on the decision of their parents; he would leave her the bulk of his estate, which on his death passed to the University of the South at Sewanee. He received the Pulitzer Prize twice and died in 1983 in a New York hotel.

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• TheatreA Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams · 1947Literature