Happy birthday, Tennessee Williams

It is the birthday of playwright Tennessee Williams (1911), who is remembered for such popular theater works as The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), Orpheus Descending (1957), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). Streetcar and Cat each won Pulitzer Prizes. Williams wrote many other plays as well as screenplays, and short stories. His two novels were The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950) and Moise and the World of Reason (1975).

Happy birthday, Tennessee Williams

It is the birthday of writer Tennessee Williams (1911), one of the greatest  American playwrights ever. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and another for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Williams also wrote The Glass Menagerie (1944), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Orpheus Descending (1957), Suddenly, Last Summer (1958), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961), many of which have been adapted for film. Williams wrote two collections of poetry, two novels, and numerous one-act plays.