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Williams, Tennessee
Born: March 26, 1914
Columbus, Mississippi
Died: February 25, 1983
New York, New York
American dramatist, playwright, and writer
Tennessee Williams, dramatist and fiction writer, was one of America's major mid-twentieth-century playwrights.
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He is best known for his powerful plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Becoming Tennessee
Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1914, the second of three children of Cornelius and Edwina Williams.
His father, a traveling salesman, was rarely home and for many years the family lived with his mother's parents. As a result, the young boy developed a close relationship with his grandfather, and also his older sister, Rose.
William's family life was never a happy one. His parents were resentful of each other, his mother once describing her husband as "a man's man" who loved to gamble and drink. When his father obtained a position at a shoe fact