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Thomas Lanier Williams III (26 March1911 – 25 February1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

See also:

A Streetcar Named Desire (film)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (film)

Quotes

• When I look back at Stairs to the Roof...

  I see its faults very plainly, as plainly as you may see them, but still I do not feel apologetic about this play. Unskilled and awkward as I was at this initial period of my playwriting, I certainly had a moral earnestness which I cannot boast of today, and I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times. I wish I still had the idealistic passion of Benjamin Murphy!

  You may smile as I do at the sometimes sophomoric aspect of his excitement, but I hope you will respect, as