Tennessee+Williams

=Tennessee Williams =

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(March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) born Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the Southeastern U.S. state, his father's birthplace. =====

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He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1944 in Chicago, 1945 in New York) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattooreceived the Tony Award for best play. In 1980 President Jimmy Carter presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. =====

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In the early 1930s Williams attended the University of Missouri, where he joined Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. In the late 1930s, Williams transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for a year. There he wrote a play, Me Vaysha (1937). He finally earned a degree in 1938 from the University of Iowa, where he wrote "Spring Storm." Previously, Williams had written Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay! This work was first produced in 1935 by the Garden Players community theater in Memphis, Tennessee. Regarding this production, Williams wrote, ""The laughter ... enchanted me. Then and there the theatre and I found each other for better and for worse. I know it's the only thing that saved my life." He later studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York City. =====

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His first sexual affair with a man was at Provincetown, Massachusetts with a dancer named Kip Kiernan. He carried a photo of Kip in his wallet for many years. Having struggled with his sexuality throughout his youth, he came out as a gay man in private. When Kip left him for a woman and marriage, Williams was devastated. Williams was outed as gay by Louis Kronenberger in Time magazine in the 1950s. =====

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof A Streetcar Named Desire The Glass Menagerie Night of the Iguana The Rose Tattoo Not About Nightingales Battle of Angels Suddenly Last Summer Summer and Smoke Sweet Bird of Youth <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">27 Wagons Full of Cotton <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clothes for a Summer Hotel <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dragon Country: A Book of Plays <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eccentricities of a Nightingale <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

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 * http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/tennessee-williams/about-tennessee-williams/737/ **
 * http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0931783/bio **
 * http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc9.htm **