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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
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 Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was the second child (of three) of a shoe salesman and a minister’s daughter; his older sister, Rose, two years his senior, struggled with mental illness and had one of America’s first lobotomies. His first success was The Glass Menagerie, which opened on Broadway in 1945 and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. A Streetcar Named Desire had its premiere in 1947, followed the next year by Summer and Smoke, a failure that ran only three months. His other plays include The Rose Tattoo (1951); Camino Real (1953); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), for which he received another Pulitzer and Drama Critic Circle Award; Suddenly Last Summer (1958); Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) and The Night of the Iguana (1961). In his later years, Williams struggled with drugs, alcohol and depression. He died in February 1983. In 1998, his play Not About Nightingales had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre and ran on Broadway. Collections of his plays, stories, poems and letters continue to be published. |
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