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Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams


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 graduation he had supported himself doing a variety of
small jobs. In 1939 he won a national drama award for a group of plays called
American Blues. Williams achieved his first great stage success with The Glass
Menagerie, which was produced in New York......


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