Tennessee Williams
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was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in
Columbus, Mississippi. As a child, he lived with his mother and grandfather.
When he was fourteen, Williams too first place in an essay contest sponsored by
a national magazine, The Smart Set. At the age of seventeen, his first
published story ....
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.... New
York Drama Critics' Circle Prize as the years best play. Williams averaged two
plays a year since that time. On February 4, 1983, Tennessee Williams died in
New York City. Throughout Williams' lifetime he has put forth more than twenty-
five full-length plays, more than forty short plays, a dozen produced (and
unproduced) screenplays and an opera libretto. These have been translated into
at least twenty-seven languages, including Tamil, Welsh, Marathi and Hindi. In
addition, there ar ....
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