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Tennessee Williams - Online Term Paper

Tennessee Williams

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 appeared in the August 1928 issue of Weird Tales. A year later
Williams entered the University of Missouri but in 1932 he withdrew and took a
job at the shoe factory where his father held a job as a sales manager. In
1935 Williams returned to college and graduated from the University of Iowa in
1938. Williams had begun writing plays while attending the University of
Missouri and after his ...

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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 are two novels, a novella, more than sixty short stories, more
than one hundred poems, an autobiography, a published volume of letters,
introductions to plays and books by others, and occasional pieces and reviews.

PLAYS Baby Doll & Tiger Tail Camino Real Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Clothes for a
Summer Hotel Dragon Country The Glass Menagerie A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
The Read Devil Battery Sign Small Craft Warnings Stopped Rocking and Other
Screenplays A Streetcar Named Desire Sweet Bird of Youth THE THEATER OF
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME 1 Battle of Angels, A Streetcar Named Desire, The
Glass Menagerie THE THEATER OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, VOLUME II The Eccentricities
of a Nightingale, Summer and Smoke, ...

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Added: 12/31/2005 09:10:41 PM
Category: Biographies
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