1. Tennessee Williams - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

Tennessee Williams From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Tennessee Williams Williams in 1965. Born March 26 Columbus Mississippi Died February 25 New York New York Occupation Playwright Writing period Genres Southern Gothic Influences Anton Chekhov D. H. Lawrence August Strindberg Influenced Stephen Chbosky Signature Thomas Lanier Williams III March 26 February 25 ), better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams , was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee" which was the state of his father's birth. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in . In addition, The Glass Menagerie ) and The Night of the Iguana ) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His play The Rose Tattoo (dedicated to his lover, Frank Merlo ), received the Tony Award for best play. Contents Biography The Work The Complete Works Major plays ... External links Biography Tennessee Williams found inspiration in his humble family for much of his writing. He was born in

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Tennessee Williams From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Thomas Lanier Williams March 26 ... February 25 ) was an American playwright. See also A Streetcar Named Desire Contents Sourced Stairs to the Roof (1941) The Glass Menagerie (1944) Camino Real (1953) ... edit Sourced edit Stairs to the Roof (1941) A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages This is the subtitle of the play edit The Glass Menagerie (1944) "In memory everything seems to happen to music." - Tom (As Narrator Scene One) "Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." - Tom (As Narrator Scene One) “Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down…So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!” (Amanda, Scene One) “Mother, when you’re disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus’ mother in the museum!” (Laura, Scene Two) “I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren’t prepared to occupy a position. I’ve seen such pitiful cases in the South-barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister’s husband or brother’s wife!-stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room-encouraged by one in-law to visit another-little birdlike women without any nest-eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we’ve mapped out for ourselves?” (Amanda, Scene Two)

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Tennessee Williams aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Tennessee Williams 1953 Tennessee Williams 1965 Tennessee Williams 26. M¤rz in Columbus , Bundesstaat Mississippi 25. Februar in New York City ; eigentlich Thomas Lanier Williams ) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller . Den Spitznamen „Tennessee“ erhielt er von Collegefreunden an der University of Missouri , weil er den Akzent, der im Bundesstaat Tennessee gesprochen wird, sprach. Seine GroŸeltern, bei denen er oft und gern zu Besuch war, lebten immer noch dort, was f¼r seinen Akzent pr¤gend war. Das in Hollywood zun¤chst abgelehnte Script f¼r Die Glasmenagerie markierte 1944 in Chicago Williams’ ersten B¼hnenerfolg. Das St¼ck Die t¤towierte Rose (seinem Lebensgef¤hrten Frank Merlo gewidmet) erhielt den Tony Award f¼r bestes Schauspiel. Es wurde 1950 ebenfalls in Chicago uraufgef¼hrt. Kritiker rechnen Williams’ Stil der S¼dstaatengothik zu. 1948 und 1955 wurde Williams mit dem Pulitzerpreis ausgezeichnet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Werke Theaterst¼cke Drehb¼cher ... Bearbeiten Leben Tennessee Williams, Sohn von Cornelius Coffin Williams und Edwina Dakin, wuchs in Columbus/Mississippi auf und erlebte dort eine relativ gl¼ckliche Kindheit, obwohl sein Vater als reisender Schuhverk¤ufer oft abwesend war und ein recht unstetes Leben f¼hrte. 1918 musste er mit seiner Familie nach

5. Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams AKA Thomas Lanier Williams. Born 26Mar-1911 Mother Edwina Dakin Williams (minister s daughter) http://www.nndb.com/people/201/000022135/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Tennessee Williams AKA Thomas Lanier Williams Born: 26-Mar Birthplace: Columbus, MS Died: 25-Feb Location of death: Hotel Elysee, New York City Cause of death: Accident - Choking Remains: Buried, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis MO Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Gay Occupation: Playwright Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Glass Menagerie Father: Cornelius Coffin Williams (shoe salesman) Mother: Edwina Dakin Williams (minister's daughter) University: University of Missouri (dropped out) University: Washington University in St. Louis (1936-37, transferred) University: BA, University of Iowa (1938) Tony The Rose Tattoo Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Kennedy Center Honor St. Louis Walk of Fame Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Tonsillectomy ... Draft Deferment: World War II 4-F Risk Factors: Depression Appendicitis Wrote plays: The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Sweet Bird of Youth Clothes for a Summer Hotel Do you know something we don't?

6. MWP: Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) Information about playwright tennessee williams, including a biographical and critical article, a list of published works, and other information resources. http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/

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 Printer friendly view 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.

8. Tennessee Williams For further reading tennessee williams by Philip C. Kolin (1998); The Kindness of Strangers The Life of tennessee williams by Donald Spoto (1997); 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 TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne 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.

9. Tennessee Williams Biography In the small town of Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911, Thomas Lanier williams, also know as the famous author tennessee williams, was born. http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215102/tennesseewilliams.htm

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Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. His father, Cornelius Coffin Williams, was a shoe salesman who spent a great deal of his time away from the family. Williams had one older sister and one younger brother. They spent much of their childhood in the home of their maternal grandfather who was an Episcopal minister. In 1927, Williams got his first taste of literary acclaim when he placed third in a national essay contest sponsored by The Smart Set magazine. The essay was entitled "Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" Williams studied for several years at the University of Missouri, but withdrew before completing his degree and took a job in St. Louis at the International Shoe Company where his father worked. Other odd jobs with which he supported himself included waiter, elevator operator, and theater usher. He eventually returned to school and received a degree from the University of Iowa in 1938. Whether in school or working in the factory, Williams was constantly writing. In 1939, Williams moved to New Orleans and formally adopted his college nickname "Tennessee" - which was the state of his father's birth. Tennessee Williams is considered one of America's greatest playwrights. He was also a known homosexual.

11. Biography: Tennessee Williams (For a complete listing of williams s published work, go to the tennessee williams Links page on this web site and, from there, to the Ole Miss web site.) http://www.etsu.edu/haleyd/twbio.html

by Darryl E. Haley, Assistant Professor of English East Tennessee State University Thomas Lanier Williams March 26, 1911 to February 23, 1983 His Life: Born to Cornelius and Edwina Dakin Williams on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams was amply prepared for writing about society¹s outcasts. His mother was an aggressive woman, obsessed by her fantasies of genteel Southern living. His father, a traveling salesman for a large shoe manufacturer, was at turns distant and abusive. His older sister, Rose, was emotionally disturbed and destined to spend most of her life in mental institutions. He remained aloof from his younger brother, Dakin, whom his father repeatedly favored over both of the older children. Who could have fortold that this shy, sickly, confused young man would become one of America's most famous playwrights. More than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Williams as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire includes some 30 full-length plays, numerous short plays, two volumes of poetry, and five volumes of essays and short stories. He won two Pulitzer Prizes (for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955), and was the first playwright to receive, in 1947, the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Donaldson Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in the same year. (For a complete listing of Williams's published work, go to the "Tennessee Williams Links" page on this web site and, from there, to the Ole Miss web site.)

12. American Masters . Tennessee Williams | PBS In 1980 williams wrote CLOTHES FOR A SUMMER HOTEL, based on the lives of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Only three years later, tennessee williams died in a http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/williams_t.html

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PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 8: Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) Mississippi Writers Page: TW TW/New Orleans Festival: 3/28-4/1, 2007 The TW Annual Review Primary Works ... Home Page Source: US Postal Service E-mail: I am Dakin Williams, the brother of your subject Tennessee Williams and the last of his remaining blood relatives. I appreciate the work you have put in to your site providing insight and resources for those who would research the life of my brother. He was the greatest playwright of the millenium and deserves to be studied every bit as well as William Shakespeare. I have instructed my web site administrator to provide a link to your site from my own website. 2/13/98 "Whether or not we admit it to ourselves, we are all haunted by a truly awful sense of impermanence." - TW, "Introduction." The Rose Tatoo A gifted writer and recipient of many literary awards, Williams is now recognized as an innovator of the new American drama after the end of World War II. Many of his plays have shocked audiences; they display violence, sexuality, alcoholism, rape, homosexuality, and fetishism in terms that were never before seen on the American stage. His pervasive theme is the inescapable loneliness of human condition. His characters are faded men and women, consumed by time and decay; many (like Amanda, Laura, and Tom Wingfield, Jim O'Connor, Big Daddy, Big Mama, Brick and Maggie), have become memorable.

14. Tennessee Williams Writer A Streetcar Named Desire. tennessee williams met longterm partner Frank Marlo in the summer Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931783/

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) Tennessee Williams 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 William?s 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 Thomas?s 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, Rose?s 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.

16. The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Annual fiveday celebration held in late March, which showcases national and regional scholars and writers. Brochure, archives, schedule and travel http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/

Home About the Festival Festival News Ticket Sales ... Contests document.write(daysLeft); days until the 2008 Festival! Participants Save the date: March 26th through March 30th, 2008. We’re busy planning our 2008 season with celebrated authors, artists, and you. For five days this spring,The Tennessee Williams Festival wil light up the French Quarter with culture, food and fun, bringing back some favorite voices and exciting new ones as well. Here are just a few of the people you’ll see at the 2008 Festival: Hal Crowther’s current collection of essays, Gather at the River, is a National Book Award nominee. For his first collection, Unarmed But Dangerous , he was cited by Kirkpatrick Sale as “the best essayist working in journalism today.” Cathedrals of Kudzu received the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council and the 1999-2001 Fellowship Prize for Non-Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Dan Menaker will also be in attendance. Dan is the author of the 1998 novel

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18. The Tennessee Williams Annual Review Annual literary review published by Middle tennessee State University. http://www.tennesseewilliamsstudies.org/

Tennessee Williams Studies Online The 2007 Review is Available! The 2007 copy of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review is now available to order . See what this issue has to offer here The Tenneseee Williams Annual Review , published in partnership with The Historic New Orleans Collection, focuses on scholarship devoted to the works of Tennessee Williams and also offers previously unpublished work by this great playwright. This also serves as the official web site for the Tennessee Williams Scholars' Conference, an event held each March in New Orleans in conjunction with the Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival. We welcome your comments and questions. Back Issues In addition to the online issue to come, we will archive all of the print editions of the journal. Also, limited numbers of back issues are still available to order. Click here for details.

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Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983) US dramatist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 6 of 6 total Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. Tennessee Williams Security is a kind of death. Tennessee Williams - More quotations on: [ Security When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. Tennessee Williams I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) - More quotations on: [ Kindness Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else... Tennessee Williams Camino Real A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) - More quotations on: [ Nature 5 Quotations in other collections Search for Tennessee Williams at Amazon.com

20. Glbtq >> Literature >> Williams, Tennessee Conflicted over his own sexuality, tennessee williams wrote directly about homosexuality only in his short stories, his poetry, and his late plays. http://www.glbtq.com/literature/williams_t.html

Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983) page: Conflicted over his own sexuality, Tennessee Williams wrote directly about homosexuality only in his short stories, his poetry, and his late plays. Like many twentieth-century writers who were celebrities as well as artists, particularly writers whose work is often autobiographical, Williams's life is almost as well known as his work. Sponsor Message. He was born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911. His mother was a prim minister's daughter, his father a tough shoe salesman who called his son "Miss Nancy." In the autobiographical The Glass Menagerie (1945), Williams includes his father only as a smiling photograph on the wall, a case of artistic wishful thinking. Williams's deepest attachment was to his sister, Rose, institutionalized in the 1930s and lobotomized after accusing her father of sexual abuse. A published writer of fiction and poetry since he was a teenager, Williams studied writing at the University of Iowa and, after some initial failures, became the best known playwright of the 1940s and 1950s.

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