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==Life==

==Life==

Tennessee (born Thomas Lanier) Williams was born and raised in Columbus, Mississippi.<ref>http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc9.htm</ref>  He was admitted to the University of Missouri in 1929.  It was there that he saw a performance of ''Ghosts'' by [[Henrik Ibsen]] and subsequently decided he wanted to become a playwright.<ref>http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/tennessee_williams_timeline.html</ref>  He was able to have two of his early plays produced in 1937, and the following year, he moved to New Orleans and changed his name to Tennessee.  In 1944, he debuted ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' in Chicago, which, after a successful run, made its way to [[Broadway]].  The play helped to establish him as an important American voice in theater.  The year 1947 saw him debut perhaps his most famous play, ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'', which would go on to win a [[Pulitzer Prize]], the first of two he would win in his career (the other one being for his 1955 play ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'').  Williams would go on to write regularily until his death in 1983.

Tennessee (born Thomas Lanier) Williams was born and raised in Columbus, Mississippi.<ref>http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc9.htm</ref>  He was admitted to the University of Missouri in 1929.  It was there that he saw a performance of ''Ghosts'' by [[Henrik Ibsen]] and subsequently decided he wanted to become a playwright.<ref>http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/tennessee_williams_timeline.html</ref>  He was able to have two of his early plays produced in 1937, and the following year, he moved to New Orleans and changed his name to Tennessee.  In 1944, he debuted ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' in Chicago, which, after a successful run, made its way to [[Broadway]].  The play helped to establish him as an important American voice in theater.  The year 1947 saw him debut perhaps his most famous play, ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'', which would go on to win a [[Pulitzer Prize]], the first of two he would win in his career (the other one being for his 1955 play ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'').  Williams would go on to write regularily until his death in 1983.

==Legacy==

==Legacy==

Tennessee Williams is generally recognized as one of the greatest American playwrights, of his or any other time.<ref>http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/</ref> His plays are performed regularily in theaters across North America to this day.

Tennessee Williams is generally recognized as one of the greatest American playwrights, of his or any other time.<ref>http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/williams_tennessee/</ref> His plays are performed regularily in theaters across North America to this day.

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