Portrait of Tennessee Williams

Modernism

Tennessee Williams

1911 – 1983

American playwright (1911–1983)

  • United States
  • American
  • Southern Gothic
UGC NET importance

About

Thomas Lanier Williams III, 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.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Portrait by Orlando Fernandez, World Telegram staff photographer (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons.

Life on the Timeline

1911 – 1983
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Major Works

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