Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
noun
United States playwright (1911-1983)
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑dramatist, ↑playwright

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Tennessee Williams [Tennessee Williams]
(1914–83) a major US writer of plays. These were often set in the ↑South and about people with emotional and sexual problems, which many people found shocking when the plays were first performed. Two of his 24 plays, ↑A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), won ↑Pulitzer Prizes. Others included The Glass Menagerie (1945), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) and Night of the Iguana (1961). There have been film versions of many of them.

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